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Compiler backend for multiple programming languages
LLVM is a set of compiler and toolchain technologies that can be used to develop a frontend for any programming language and a backend for any instruction
LLVM
Compiler front-end
Clang operates in tandem with the LLVM compiler back end and has been a subproject of LLVM 2.6 and later. As with LLVM, it is free and open-source software
Clang
American software engineer (born 1978)
Arthur Lattner (born 1978) is an American software engineer and creator of LLVM, the Clang compiler, the Swift programming language and the MLIR compiler
Chris_Lattner
IDE including tools for developing software for Apple platforms
November 4, 2019. "llvm-project/llvm/CMakeLists.txt at swift-5.1.3-RELEASE". GitHub. Retrieved March 20, 2020. "llvm-project/llvm/CMakeLists.txt at swift-5
Xcode
Free-software license
recommends it over other non-copyleft licenses. If the Apache License with the LLVM exception[clarification needed] is used, then it is compatible with GPLv2
Apache_License
C++ framework for compiler development
open-source compiler infrastructure project developed as a sub-project of the LLVM project. It provides a modular and extensible intermediate representation
MLIR_(software)
Data structure or code used by a compiler
Intermediate Layer LLVM Intermediate Representation (converted from GIMPLE in the now-defunct llvm-gcc which uses LLVM optimizers and codegen) The LLVM compiler
Intermediate_representation
General-purpose, object-oriented programming language
compiled for any platform supported by GNU, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) or LLVM/Clang. Objective-C source code "messaging/implementation" program files usually
Objective-C
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
service (link) "llvm-project/blob/e5e38ddf1b8043324175868831da21e941c00aff/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Processors.td at main · llvm/llvm-project". GitHub
Apple_M4
64-bit extension of the ARM architecture
supporting C intrinsics. As of July 2020[update], LLVM and clang support C and IR intrinsics. ARM's own fork of LLVM supports auto-vectorization. In October 2016
AArch64
Programming language
gccgo, a GCC-based Go compiler; later extended to also support LLVM, providing an LLVM-based Go compiler called gollvm. A third-party source-to-source
Go_(programming_language)
Internal code for computer graphics
introduced in 2015. SPIR prior to the 2015 SPIR-V release was based on the LLVM Intermediate Representation. A provisional specification for SPIR 1.0 was
Standard Portable Intermediate Representation
Standard_Portable_Intermediate_Representation
Parallel computing platform: GPGPU libraries and application programming interface
GPU code, using LLVM, and its AMDGPU backend that was upstreamed, although there is still research on such enhanced modularity with LLVM MLIR. ROCm as a
ROCm
Efficient variable-length integer encoding
Retrieved 2009-07-19. LLVM Project (2016). "LLVM Code Coverage Mapping Format". Retrieved 2016-10-20. LLVM Project (2019). "LLVM LEB128 encoding and decoding"
LEB128
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
Apple Apple M1 Comparison of Armv8-A processors "llvm-project/AArch64.td at llvm/master · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. Archived from the original
Apple_A13
General-purpose programming language
been made for Android (with Android NDK) or iOS.[citation needed] Zig uses LLVM (written in C++) as a backend for optimization. Since version 0.10 the Zig
Zig_(programming_language)
Proprietary language for AI accelerators
(MLIR) compiler software framework, instead of directly on the lower level LLVM compiler framework like many languages such as Julia, Swift, C++, and Rust
Mojo_(programming_language)
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
TechCrunch. Retrieved September 13, 2023. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project". GitHub. September 10, 2024
Apple_A17_Pro
Parallel computing platform and programming model
Retrieved 2023-12-10. "CUDA LLVM Compiler". 7 May 2012. "Compiling CUDA with clang – LLVM 22.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. First OpenCL demo on a GPU
CUDA
Software that translates code from one programming language to another
17 February 2017. Retrieved 24 April 2012. LLVM community. "The LLVM Target-Independent Code Generator". LLVM Documentation. Retrieved 17 June 2016. Compiler
Compiler
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
lake in Geekbench", Tom’s Hardware "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project". GitHub. September 10, 2024
Apple_M3
Support in Clang". clang.llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 2018-03-12. ""libc++" C++ Standard Library". libcxx.llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 2018-03-12
List_of_compilers
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. September
Apple_A16
Program converting LLVM bytecode to WebAssembly
Emscripten is an LLVM/Clang-based compiler that compiles LLVM IR to WebAssembly, primarily for execution in web browsers. Emscripten allows applications
Emscripten
Bit-level computer operation
com. Microsoft. Retrieved 9 April 2016. "LLVM Language Reference Manual - shl Instruction". llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 9 April 2016. "<< Operator
Logical_shift
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
2021-09-17. Retrieved 2021-09-17. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. 10 September
Apple_A15
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple
5, 2023. Retrieved June 5, 2023. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. September
Apple_M2
Software debugger
as a component of the LLVM project. It is built as a set of reusable components which extensively use existing libraries from LLVM, such as the Clang expression
LLDB_(debugger)
Tool to detect memory-related bugs
"GWP-ASan — LLVM 17.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. "libFuzzer – a library for coverage-guided fuzz testing. — LLVM 17.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. Abhishek
Code_sanitizer
Low-level parallel thread execution virtual machine and instruction set architecture
Compute Unified Device Architecture (CUDA) programming environment. The LLVM-based Nvidia CUDA Compiler (NVCC) translates code written in OpenCL C and
Parallel_Thread_Execution
Assembly-language programming and binary-analysis tools
Toolkit". IBM Documentation. IBM. Retrieved May 10, 2026. "llvm-mc - LLVM Machine Code Playground". LLVM Documentation. Retrieved May 10, 2026. "Keystone Engine"
List of assembly software and tools
List_of_assembly_software_and_tools
General-purpose programming language
many vendors provide C++ compilers, including the Free Software Foundation, LLVM, Microsoft, Intel, Embarcadero, Oracle, and IBM. C++ was designed with systems
C++
Term in computer security
function that called it). Related implementations are available in Clang (LLVM front-end),, GNU Compiler Collection, Microsoft's Control Flow Guard and
Control-flow_integrity
Software security techniques
buffer overflow protection, including those for the GNU Compiler Collection, LLVM, Microsoft Visual Studio, and other compilers. A stack buffer overflow occurs
Buffer_overflow_protection
Virtual machine software
JavaScript runtime, as well as Node.js. LLVM Runtime is a runtime to execute languages that can be transformed into LLVM bitcode. To improve the performance
GraalVM
General-purpose programming language
the order of ten to a hundred times. Codon compiles to machine code (via LLVM) and supports native multithreading. Codon can also compile to Python extension
Python_(programming_language)
Technique for program analysis
Java http://www.key-project.org/ yes Kite LLVM http://www.cs.ubc.ca/labs/isd/Projects/Kite/ yes KLEE LLVM https://klee.github.io/ yes Kudzu JavaScript
Symbolic_execution
Indian academic
developed the LLVM compiler infrastructure project in 2001. Vikram Adve and Chris Lattner received the 2012 ACM Software System Award for the LLVM software
Vikram_Adve
Family of Unix-like operating systems
Perl, Ruby, Python, Java, Go, Rust and Haskell. First released in 2003, the LLVM project provides an alternative cross-platform open-source compiler for many
Linux
Open standard for programming heterogenous computing systems, such as CPUs or GPUs
Version 1.4 includes support for LLVM 8.0 and 9.0. Version 1.5 implements LLVM/Clang 10 support. Version 1.6 implements LLVM/Clang 11 support and CUDA Acceleration
OpenCL
C/C++ directive to block repeated header inclusions
— Clang 3.4 documentation". Clang.llvm.org. Retrieved 2013-08-19. "clang: File manipulation routines". Clang.llvm.org. Retrieved 2013-08-19. "GCC 3.4
Pragma_once
C-like programming language
backends are responsible for further transforming C-- into executable code, via LLVM IR, slow C, or directly through the built-in native backend. Despite the
C--
General-purpose programming language
JavaScript (e.g., for frontend web applications using React) or native code via LLVM (e.g., for native iOS apps sharing business logic with Android apps). JetBrains
Kotlin
Series of systems-on-a-chip designed by Apple
2022-04-30. Retrieved 2021-10-26. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. 10 September
Apple_M1
64-bit big-endian PowerPC architecture
identifier commonly used within the Linux, GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM free software communities to refer to the target architecture for applications
Ppc64
Runtime system for operating systems
function, encapsulating logic for reusability. Prior to Linux kernel 4.16 and LLVM 6.0, a typical eBPF C program had to explicitly direct the compiler to inline
EBPF
Continuous integration testing framework
alternative to the Mozilla project's Tinderbox, and is now used by Python, WebKit, LLVM, Blender, ReactOS, and many other projects. Buildbot is written in Python
Buildbot
Parallel programming language
compiler is written in C and C++ (C++14). The backend (i.e. the optimizer) is LLVM, written in C++. Python 3.7 or newer is required for some optional components
Chapel_(programming_language)
Functional programming language
via one of two intermediate languages: C--, or in more recent versions, LLVM (formerly Low Level Virtual Machine) bitcode. GHC has become the de facto
Haskell
AI model that developer a super-human sorting algorithm
discovered new sorting algorithms, which led to up to 70% improvements in the LLVM libc++ sorting library for shorter sequences and about 1.7% improvements
AlphaDev
Procedural programming language
(everything is a word) Filename extensions .b Major implementations BLang LLVM-based B Compiler, B by Alexey Kutepov (incomplete), BCause, A Modern B Compiler
B_(programming_language)
Computer program optimization method
Compiler Collection (GCC) and LLVM, the compiler is able to dump its intermediate representation (IR), i.e. GIMPLE bytecode or LLVM bitcode, respectively, so
Interprocedural_optimization
Linker for ELF files
"Striking gold in binutils". LWN.net. Retrieved 2020-04-28. "The LLVM gold plugin". LLVM. Coutant, Cary (2012-04-05). "Incremental Linking with Gold" (PDF)
Gold_(linker)
Representation of graph notation
CiteSeerX 10.1.1.101.27. doi:10.1145/24039.24041. S2CID 505075. "Dependence Graphs in LLVM — LLVM 19.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-26. v t e
Program_dependence_graph
Audio programming language
languages, Scheme (with extensions) and Extempore Language. It uses the LLVM cross-language compiler to achieve performant digital signal processing and
Extempore_(software)
Instructions for the x86 microprocessors
November 4, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021. "LLVM 3.9 Release Notes — LLVM 3.9 documentation". releases.llvm.org. Retrieved April 3, 2017. "GCC 4.9 Release
Advanced_Vector_Extensions
Computer software project
--llvm or --nollvm command line arguments, and it defaults to the fast-starting Mono code generation engine. Starting with Mono 5.18, support for LLVM is
Mono_(software)
Family of digital signal processor microprocessors
CodeAurora (Qualcomm) "LLVM 3.1 Release Notes". Llvm.org. 2012-05-15. Retrieved 2012-10-19. "LLVM 8.0.0 Release Notes". Llvm.org. 2019-03-20. Retrieved
Qualcomm_Hexagon
Free build automation software
Makefile translation by Kati), and is used by most developers working on LLVM. In contrast to Make, Ninja lacks features such as string manipulation, as
Ninja_(build_system)
Generic term for compiler optimization
from being done twice for the same result. LLVM has a sinking pass in its single static assignment form. LLVM 15.0 will not sink an operation if any of
Code_motion
Free and open-source library for 3D graphics rendering
instead LLVM IR. From here on, LLVM does optimizations and the compilation to machine code. This does mean, that a certain minimum version of LLVM has to
Mesa_(computer_graphics)
C programming language standard draft planned for release in 2029
undo" (PDF). open-std.org. WG 14. LLVM Project (24 February 2026). "Clang 22.1.0 Release Notes". releases.llvm.org. LLVM Project. "WG14-N3356: 'if' declarations
C29_(C_standard_revision)
Linux distribution
component. This design philosophy results in the following technical choices: LLVM with Clang as the primary toolchain, instead of GCC musl as the system C
Chimera_Linux
Instruction set designed to be run by a software interpreter
p-code sequences executed by an interpreter inside the resident driver. LLVM IR LSL, a scripting language used in virtual worlds compiles into bytecode
Bytecode
Modular translation unit in C++
2736. hdl:10831/113355. Retrieved 2025-07-28. LLVM Project. "Standard C++ Modules". clang.llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 3 December 2025. Microsoft
Modules_(C++)
Rust software and development tools
backends LLVM MRustC — alternative Rust compiler written in C++, focused on bootstrapping. rustc — official Rust compiler, written in Rust and using LLVM as
List of Rust software and tools
List_of_Rust_software_and_tools
Archived from the original on 17 October 2019. "llvm-project/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64.td at main - llvm/llvm-project - GitHub". github.com. Retrieved
Comparison_of_ARM_processors
Analysis of software performed when running a program
AddressSanitizer: Memory error detection for Linux, macOS, Windows, and more. Part of LLVM. BoundsChecker: Memory error detection for Windows based applications. Part
Dynamic_program_analysis
Property of an intermediate representation in a compiler
most high-quality optimizing compilers for imperative languages, including LLVM, the GNU Compiler Collection, and many commercial compilers. There are efficient
Static_single-assignment_form
Higher-level programming standard for heterogeneous computing
implementation Implementation of SYCL started by Intel with the goal of Clang/LLVM up-streaming AdaptiveCpp (formerly known as hipSYCL / Open SYCL) triSYCL
SYCL
Program that combines intermediate build files into an executable file
original on 2020-03-06. Retrieved 2019-01-18. "LLD - The LLVM Linker — lld 14 documentation". lld.llvm.org. "GCC 12 Adds Support For Using The Mold Linker"
Linker_(computing)
Subroutine call performed as final action of a procedure
ISBN 978-1-4503-2308-6. S2CID 9807843. "The LLVM Target-Independent Code Generator — LLVM 7 documentation". llvm.org. "recursion - Stack memory usage for
Tail_call
GPU microarchitecture and accompanying instruction set architecture
Retrieved May 9, 2025. "User Guide for AMDGPU Backend — LLVM 22.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. "Accelerator and GPU hardware specifications — ROCm
RDNA_(microarchitecture)
Compiling bytecode to machine code at runtime
Common Language Runtime Copy-and-patch Dynamic compilation GNU lightning LLVM OVPsim Self-modifying code Tracing just-in-time compilation Transmeta Crusoe
Just-in-time_compilation
Instructions directly executable by a computer
V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) v t e
Machine_code
Compiler optimization technique
version 12.0.0, the instruction scheduling in LLVM/Clang could only accept a -march (called target-cpu in LLVM parlance) switch for both instruction set and
Instruction_scheduling
JIT compiler for Python
that translates a subset of Python and NumPy into fast machine code using LLVM, via the llvmlite Python package. It offers a range of options for parallelising
Numba
Software that emulates an entire computer
V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) v t e
Virtual_machine
Software that executes source code directly
V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) v t e
Interpreter_(computing)
General-purpose programming language
OCaml compiler to a self-hosting compiler (i.e., written in Rust) targeting LLVM. The ownership system was in place by 2010. The Rust logo was developed in
Rust_(programming_language)
Developed For LLVM". www.phoronix.com. Retrieved 25 June 2026. Pitre, Boisy Gene (23 June 2026). "[RFC] Adding BASIC09 frontend tool to LLVM". LLVM Discussion
BASIC09
Embedding assembly in a high-level language
suite), and LLVM uses the GCC syntax. The D programming language uses a DSL similar to the MSVC extension officially for x86_64, but the LLVM-based LDC
Inline_assembler
llvm/ C++ AMP Support in Clang and LLVM compiler https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/hcc C++ AMP Support in Clang and LLVM compiler
C++_AMP
Extensions to the x86 instruction set architecture
LLVM for 4th Gen Intel® Xeon® & Max Series CPUs". Retrieved 21 April 2023. Larabel, Michael (2020-07-02). "Intel AMX Support Begins Landing In LLVM"
Advanced_Matrix_Extensions
Program for displaying information about object files
certain platforms (e.g. macOS), the objdump binary may actually be a link to LLVM's objdump, with different command-line options and behavior.[citation needed]
Objdump
Lightweight markup language
community for its official documentation, the Linux kernel docs, CMake, and the LLVM compiler project. It is part of the Docutils project of the Python Doc-SIG
ReStructuredText
Human-readable instructions a computer can execute
V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) v t e
Source_code
Video game engine
which has been noted at the LLVM project due to his synthesis of the ioquake3 engine, ray-tracing rendering technique, and LLVM. The project has since received
Id_Tech_3
General-purpose programming language
intermediate languages, such as C--. Also, contemporary major compilers GCC and LLVM both feature an intermediate representation that is not C, and those compilers
C_(programming_language)
Intermediate programming language
is translated by a source-to-source compiler such as Emscripten (based on LLVM). Performance is improved by limiting language features to those amenable
Asm.js
Free Unix-like operating system kernel
October 2017). "2017 LLVM Developers' Meeting: Compiling Android userspace and Linux kernel with LLVM" (video). youtube.com. llvm.org. Archived from the
Linux_kernel
Encoding method for variable-length integers
Variable-width integers in LLVM use a similar principle. The encoding chunks are little-endian and need not be 8 bits in size. The LLVM documentation describes
Variable-length_quantity
Data that causes a computer to follow indicated instructions
V8 and Node.js Zend Engine (PHP) Notable compilers & toolchains GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) LLVM and Clang MSVC Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC) v t e
Executable
Optimizing C/C++ and Fortran compiler suite
targeting 32-bit and 64-bit Linux platforms. It is a proprietary fork of LLVM + Clang with various additional patches to improve performance for AMD's
AMD_Optimizing_C/C++_Compiler
Open source browser engine
was announced on May 13, 2014. It uses LLVM to generate optimized machine code. "FTL" stands for "Fourth-Tier-LLVM", and unofficially for faster-than-light
WebKit
Programming language designed for interoperability with C++
and related tools are hosted on GitHub under the Apache 2.0 license with LLVM Exceptions. The following shows how a program might be written in Carbon
Carbon_(programming_language)
Standards for the C programming language
RealView Clang (full C89/C90 and C99, partial C11, C17, C23 and C2y), using LLVM backend GCC (full C89/90, C99, C11, C17, C23 and some of experimental/incomplete
ANSI_C
Floating-point data type in C family languages
6.3 Basic data types. Retrieved 2019-11-08. "llvm/llvm-project". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-09-03. "llvm/llvm-project". GitHub. Retrieved 2020-09-03. "System
Long_double
Graphical representation of a computer program or algorithm
components of their basic blocks. For example, compiler frameworks such as LLVM use a CFG in which basic blocks consist of abstract static single-assignment
Control-flow_graph
POSIX C header
distributions of Linux and BSD, and macOS, and compilers such as GCC and LLVM. On Unix-like systems, the interface defined by <unistd.h> is typically made
Unistd.h
LLVM
LLVM
LLVM
LLVM
Surname or Lastname
English
English : variant of Kay.
Surname or Lastname
North German
North German : variant of the habitational name Lewing, from a place near Stade in Lower Saxony.North German : patronymic from a personal name (Lehwing or Lewien), formed with Middle Low German lev ‘dear’ + win ‘friend’.English : perhaps a habitational name from Levens in Cumbria, probably so named from the Old English personal name LÄ“ofa (+ genitive n) + næss ‘promontory’, ‘headland’.Possibly a hypercorrected spelling of Irish Levens, a County Louth name, which Woulfe interprets as an Anglicized form of Gaelic Mac DhuinnshlébhÃn, a variant of Dunleavy.
Girl/Female
French, German, Italian, Polish
Bitter Harvester
Female
English
Variant spelling of English Seona, SHEONA means "God is gracious."Â
Boy/Male
Arabic, Muslim
Spirit of the Holy; Epithet of Jibreel; Gabriel
Boy/Male
Tamil
Harisharan | ஹரிஷரணÂ
Protection of Hari
Girl/Female
Arabic, Australian, Hebrew, Muslim, Pakistani
Bright
Boy/Male
Arabic, Australian
Leather
Girl/Female
Irish
Dusky; dark.
Male
English
Variant spelling of English Frederick, FREDRICK means "peaceful ruler."
LLVM
LLVM
LLVM
LLVM
LLVM