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

Apple M4 Support Added to the LLVM Compiler, ARMv8.7(phoronix.com)

22 points by dmmalam 1 year ago | 2 comments

Pulcinella 1 year ago |

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?

3lit3krew 1 year ago |

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.