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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
IDE including tools for developing software for Apple platforms
4.6.3, it included the LLVM-GCC compiler, with front ends from the GNU Compiler Collection and a code generator based on LLVM. In Xcode 3.2 and later
Xcode
American software engineer (born 1978)
software engineer and creator of the compiler and related toolchain system LLVM, Clang, the MLIR infrastructure, and the programming languages Swift and
Chris_Lattner
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)
Programming language
gccgo, a GCC-based Go compiler; later extended to also support LLVM, providing an LLVM-based Go compiler called gollvm. Go was designed at Google in 2007
Go_(programming_language)
Permissive 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
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.
service (link) "llvm-project/blob/e5e38ddf1b8043324175868831da21e941c00aff/llvm/lib/Target/AArch64/AArch64Processors.td at main · llvm/llvm-project". GitHub
Apple_M4
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
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
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
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
System-on-a-chip designed by Apple Inc.
2023. Retrieved September 13, 2023. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project". GitHub. September 10, 2024
Apple_A17_Pro
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
Support in Clang". clang.llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 12 March 2018. ""libc++" C++ Standard Library". libcxx.llvm.org. LLVM Project. Retrieved 12 March
List_of_compilers
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
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.
2022. Retrieved October 18, 2022. "llvm-project/llvm/unittests/TargetParser/TargetParserTest.cpp at main · llvm/llvm-project · GitHub". GitHub. September
Apple_A16
Programming language for AI accelerators
(MLIR) compiler software framework, instead of directly on the lower level LLVM compiler framework used by languages like Julia, Swift, C++, and Rust. MLIR
Mojo_(programming_language)
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
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
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)
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
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
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
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)
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
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 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
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
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
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
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
Family of Unix-like operating systems that use the Linux kernel
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
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
General-purpose programming language
have been made for Android (with Android NDK) or iOS.[citation needed] The LLVM backend is the default for most targets, except for SPIR-V, and debug-mode
Zig_(programming_language)
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
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
Automated software testing technique
2026-09-25 "libFuzzer – a library for coverage-guided fuzz testing. - LLVM". llvm.org. Retrieved 2026-09-25. Yu, Zhenhua; Liu, Zhengqi; Cong, Xuya; Li
Fuzzing
Shell command for removing non-essential information from executable code files
Specification, Version 5 from The Open Group "llvm-strip - object stripping tool — LLVM 24.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. strip(1) – Linux User Manual – User
Strip_(Unix)
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
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
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
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++
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
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
Human-readable instructions for 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
Source_code
Procedural programming language
(everything is a word) Filename extensions .b Major implementations BLang LLVM-based B Compiler, B by Alexey Kutepov & contributors (incomplete), BCause
B_(programming_language)
Web technology developed by Google
registers to accelerate SFI. "Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) in LLVM". LLVM. LLVM Project. Retrieved 1 October 2026. Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI)
Google_Native_Client
Representation of graph notation
journal}}: Cite uses deprecated parameter |citeseerx= (help) "Dependence Graphs in LLVM — LLVM 19.0.0git documentation". llvm.org. Retrieved 2024-06-26. v t e
Program_dependence_graph
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)
Instructions for the x86 microprocessors
November 4, 2021. Retrieved November 5, 2021. "LLVM 3.9 Release Notes — LLVM 3.9 documentation". releases.llvm.org. Archived from the original on May 13,
Advanced_Vector_Extensions
Official compiler for the Rust programming language
By default, rustc uses LLVM as its primary backend framework. The compiler translates the MIR into LLVM IR, relying on LLVM to handle aggressive architecture-specific
Rust_compiler
Operating system
firewall code, Android's Bionic C standard library is based on OpenBSD code, LLVM uses OpenBSD's regular expression library, and Windows 10 uses OpenSSH (OpenBSD
OpenBSD
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
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
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)
Family of related bitwise operations on machine words
0 ed.). NVIDIA. 2010. p. 92. "'llvm.ctlz.*' Intrinsic, 'llvm.cttz.*' Intrinsic". LLVM Language Reference Manual. The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure. Retrieved
Find_first_set
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
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
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
typing rules constitute the analysis. "LLVM Alias Analysis Infrastructure — LLVM 8 documentation". releases.llvm.org. Retrieved 2022-04-22. (Smaragdakis
Steensgaard's_algorithm
Computer system that provides behavior needed by running code
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
Runtime_system
Representation of a computer program
details of cloud deployments. Galois' CPG for LLVM. Galois Inc. provides a code property graph based on the LLVM compiler. The graph represents code at different
Code_property_graph
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
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)
Translator of computer source code
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-to-source_compiler
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)
When a computer program fails to release unnecessary memory
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
Memory_leak
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
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
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
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)
llvm/ C++ AMP Support in Clang and LLVM compiler https://github.com/RadeonOpenCompute/hcc C++ AMP Support in Clang and LLVM compiler
C++_AMP
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
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
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
C standard library header file
OpenLibm musl's libm, based on the BSD libms and other projects like Arm LLVM's libm, which is correctly rounded (i.e. errors from the mathematically correct
C_mathematical_functions
Standard library for the C programming language
code from Newlib and AVR Libc llvm-libc is a from-scratch implementation of the C standard library, built as part of the LLVM project Some compilers (for
C_standard_library
Virtual machine in the Open Telecom Platform
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
BEAM_(Erlang_virtual_machine)
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
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
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
Assembly languages for the RISC-V computer architecture
for precise control over hardware. Assemblers include GNU Assembler and LLVM. Reserved keywords of RISC-V assembly language. add addi and andi beq bge
RISC-V_assembly_language
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)
Codename for a family of graphics processing unit microarchitectures
implements HyperZ. An LLVM code generator (i.e. a compiler back-end) is available for TeraScale, but it seems to be missing in LLVM's matrix. E.g. Mesa 3D
TeraScale_(microarchitecture)
List of mascots for computer hardware, software, and concepts
and Wombats". IBPhoenix. October 2000. Retrieved 19 August 2021. "LLVM Logo". LLVM.org. Retrieved 21 August 2024. "Some Incredible Stories Around Tux:
List_of_computing_mascots
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
Free and open-source software for electronic design automation
Retrieved September 18, 2026. "CIRCT: Circuit IR Compilers and Tools". GitHub. LLVM Project. Retrieved September 18, 2026. "slang". GitHub. Retrieved September
List of free and open-source EDA software
List_of_free_and_open-source_EDA_software
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
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)
When a system's behavior depends on timing of uncontrollable events
Analysis – Clang 10 documentation". clang.llvm.org. "ThreadSanitizer – Clang 10 documentation". clang.llvm.org. "Helgrind: a thread error detector". Valgrind
Race_condition
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
Assembly language and bytecode for web browsers
can also target any LLVM-supported language. Standalone Clang (version 8 and later), which supports direct compiling to Wasm. LLVM-based workflows for
WebAssembly
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
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
Compiler backend written in Rust
Wasmtime [Wikidata] and Wasmer [Wikidata], with performance comparable to LLVM-based runtimes. An alternative code generator for the Rust compiler that
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