2023-05-03 20:05:09

by Nathan Chancellor

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Subject: Prebuilt LLVM 16.0.3 uploaded

Hi all,

I have built and uploaded LLVM 16.0.3 to
https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/.

As with 16.0.2, this release includes a fix relevant to the Linux
kernel, which you can read about here (thanks to Ard Biesheuvel for
helping debug and Nick Desaulniers for the fix):

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/commit/012ea747ed0275c499f69c82ac0f635f4c76f746
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1837

This issue is not super widespread but as always, I recommend using the
latest stable release of a piece of software whenever possible, so
consider using 16.0.3 in lieu of older 16.x releases. However, I
have shuffled the tarballs to a subdirectory to allow older versions of
these toolchains to be downloaded with more ease, which can be helpful
for tracking down regressions in warnings or code generation:

https://mirrors.edge.kernel.org/pub/tools/llvm/files/

Cheers,
Nathan