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The LLVM Project is a collection of modular and reusable compiler
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and toolchain technologies. Despite its name, LLVM has little to
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do with traditional virtual machines, though it does provide helpful
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libraries that can be used to build them.
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This package includes the LLVM Core and the CLang compiler suite.
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The LLVM Core libraries provide a modern source- and target-independent
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optimizer, along with code generation support for various popular CPUs
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(i386, amd64, powerpc and arm are major targets). These libraries are
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built around a well specified code representation known as the LLVM
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intermediate representation ("LLVM IR"). The LLVM Core libraries are
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well documented, and it is particularly easy to invent your own language
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(or port an existing compiler) to use LLVM as an optimizer and code
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generator.
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Clang is an "LLVM native" C/C++/Objective-C compiler, which aims
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to deliver fast compiles, extremely useful error and warning messages
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and to provide a platform for building great source level tools.
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The Clang Static Analyzer is a tool automatically finds bugs in
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your code, and is a great example of the sort of tool that can be
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built using the Clang frontend as a library to parse C/C++ code.
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