LLVM international open source software community releases a version that officially supports the Godson LoongArch architecture.

CTOnews.com March 19 news, Godson said today that the LLVM international open source software community released version 16.0.0 on March 18, which fully supports the LoongArch instruction set architecture at the official back-end (official target) level.

According to reports, so far, the five most important basic software (BIG FIVE) in the open source software world, namely, the Linux kernel, GCC, LLVM, Glibc, and Binutils, have all released official versions that support the LoongArch architecture. Subsequent distributions of the LoongArch architecture operating system can be built directly based on the upstream community version.

Loongxin Zhongke pointed out that LLVM is one of the most important frameworks for designing and developing compilers. It not only provides the front-end clang of C / C++ compiler, but also provides compilation framework support for many other programming languages, such as Rust.

CTOnews.com learned from Godson Zhongke official data that Godson Zhongke has contributed 65000 lines of source code to the LLVM community since 2022. In addition, open source developers from home and abroad have also contributed nearly 5,000 lines of LoongArch architecture support code to the LLVM community.