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Apple M4 Support Added to the LLVM Compiler, ARMv8.7

22 pointsby dmmalam11 months ago

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Pulcinella11 months ago
<i>Technically apple-m4 is ARMv9.2a, but a quirk of LLVM defines v9.0 as requiring SVE, which is optional according to the Arm ARM and not supported by the core. ARMv8.7a is the next closest choice.</i><p>Hmm I wonder how this happened? I assume at least at one point SVE was such headline feature of 9.0 that LLVM assumed any 9.0 chip would have SVE even if it wasn&#x27;t technically required?
3lit3krew11 months ago
It&#x27;s great that Apple has supported this compiler for so long. It&#x27;s great for the Free Software world to have more than one compiler.