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Published inMar 2024
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Ivan Murashko
Ivan Murashko
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Ivan Murashko

Ivan V. Murashko is a C++ software engineer: He got his PhD from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University and has over 20 years of C++ programming experience; since 2020 he has worked with LLVM compilers. His area of interest includes clang compiler frontend and clang tools (clang-tidy, clangd).
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1.2 Getting to know LLVM

Let’s begin by covering some foundational information about LLVM, including the project history as well as its structure.

1.2.1 Short LLVM history

The Clang compiler is a part of the LLVM project. The project was started in 2000 by Chris Lattner and Vikram Adve as their project at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign [26].

LLVM was originally designed to be a next-generation code generation infrastructure that could be used to build optimizing compilers for many programming languages. However, it has since evolved into a full-featured platform that can be used to build a wide variety of tools, including debuggers, profilers, and static analysis tools.

LLVM has been widely adopted in the software industry and is used by many companies and organizations to build a variety of tools and applications. It is also used in academic research and teaching and has inspired the development of similar projects in other fields.

The project received...

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Published in: Mar 2024Publisher: PacktISBN-13: 9781837630981

Author (1)

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Ivan Murashko

Ivan V. Murashko is a C++ software engineer: He got his PhD from Peter the Great St.Petersburg Polytechnic University and has over 20 years of C++ programming experience; since 2020 he has worked with LLVM compilers. His area of interest includes clang compiler frontend and clang tools (clang-tidy, clangd).
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