[ANNOUNCEMENT] LLVM/Clang 5.0.1

[ANNOUNCEMENT] LLVM/Clang 5.0.1

[Yaakov Selkowitz]

The following packages have been uploaded to the Cygwin distribution:

* clang-5.0.1-1
* clang-analyzer-5.0.1-1
* clang-doc-5.0.1-1
* emacs-clang-format-5.0.1-1
* git-clang-format-5.0.1-1
* mingw64-i686-clang-5.0.1-1
* mingw64-x86_64-clang-5.0.1-1
* vim-clang-format-5.0.1-1
* llvm-5.0.1-1
* llvm-doc-5.0.1-1
* compiler-rt-5.0.1-1
* libc++1-5.0.1-1
* libc++-devel-5.0.1-1
* libc++abi1-5.0.1-1
* libc++abi-devel-5.0.1-1
* libclang5.0-5.0.1-1
* libclang-devel-5.0.1-1
* libllvm5.0-5.0.1-1
* libllvm-devel-5.0.1-1
* libllvm-devel-static-5.0.1-1
* ocaml-llvm-5.0.1-1
* ocaml-llvm-doc-5.0.1-1
* python2-clang-5.0.1-1
* python3-clang-5.0.1-1

The LLVM Core libraries provide a modern source- and target-independent
optimizer, along with code generation support for many popular CPUs.
These libraries are built around a well specified code representation
known as the LLVM intermediate representation.

Clang is an LLVM native C/C++/ObjC compiler, which aims to deliver
amazingly fast compiles, extremely useful error and warning messages and
to provide a platform for building great source level tools.

compiler-rt provides a simple library that provides an implementation of
the low-level target-specific hooks required by code generation and
other runtime components.

libc++ is a new implementation of the C++ standard library, targeting C++11.

This is an update to the latest upstream stable release of the
LLVM/Clang toolchain, with several improvements for Cygwin:

* Clang has been modified to properly link with ld on Cygwin, bypassing
GCC executables entirely while matching its behaviour.  GCC's libraries
and startup files are still required.

* compiler-rt is now available as an experimental alternative to
libgcc's builtins implementation; it can be used with clang
-rtlib=compiler-rt.  Please note that libgcc_s (or libgcc_eh with
-static) will still be used for exception handling support.

* libc++/libc++abi are now available as an experimental alternative to
libstdc++; it can be used with clang++ -stdlib=libc++.

* Clang's unwind.h has been fixed for SEH.

* The OCaml bindings for LLVM have been re-enabled, with new
dependencies.  They have not been tested.

* Unfortunately, lld could not be added at this time due to lack of
GNU-style command-line support in its COFF driver.  It appears that may
be changing for 6.0.

-- 
Yaakov

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