[…]It is the result of the community’s work over the past six months, including: function multiversioning in Clang with the ‘target’ attribute for ELF-based x86/x86_64 targets, improved PCH support in clang-cl, preliminary DWARF v5 support, basic support for OpenMP 4.5 offloading to NVPTX, OpenCL C++ support, MSan, X-Ray and libFuzzer support for FreeBSD, early UBSan, X-Ray and libFuzzer support for OpenBSD, UBSan checks for implicit conversions, many long-tail compatibility issues fixed in lld which is now production ready for ELF, COFF and MinGW, new tools llvm-exegesis, llvm-mca and diagtool. And as usual, many optimizations, improved diagnostics, and bug fixes.[…]
Some highlights:
Early support for UBsan, X-Ray instrumentation and libFuzzer (x86 and x86_64) for OpenBSD. Support for MSan (x86_64), X-Ray instrumentation and libFuzzer (x86 and x86_64) for FreeBSD.
AArch64 target: Assembler and disassembler support for the ARM Scalable Vector Extension has been added.
A new Implicit Conversion Sanitizer (-fsanitize=implicit-conversion) group was added. Please refer to the Undefined Behavior Sanitizer (UBSan) section of the release notes for the details.
An existing tool named diagtool has been added to the release. As the name suggests, it helps with dealing with diagnostics in clang, such as finding out the warning hierarchy, and which of them are enabled by default or for a particular compiler invocation.
clang-tidy: New module zircon for checks related to Fuchsia’s Zircon kernel.
The DEBUG macro has been renamed to LLVM_DEBUG, the interface remains the same.
A new tool named llvm-mca has been added. llvm-mca is a static performance analysis tool that uses information available in LLVM to statically predict the performance of machine code for a specific CPU.
http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/tools/clang/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/tools/clang/tools/extra/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://releases.llvm.org/7.0.0/tools/lld/docs/ReleaseNotes.html
http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-announce/2018-September/000080.html
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