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Apple M4 Support Added to the LLVM Compiler, ARMv8.7 (phoronix.com)
22 points by dmmalam on June 18, 2024 | hide | past | favorite | 2 comments


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.

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't technically required?


It's great that Apple has supported this compiler for so long. It's great for the Free Software world to have more than one compiler.




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