Alex Bradbudy, Compiler Engineer - Igalia – Developments in LLVM-based toolchains and tooling for RISC-V
Abstract
The ongoing development and maturation of RISC-V LLVM support has been a major success story for RISC-V software ecosystem enablement through cross-party collaboration. This talk will bring you up to date on the current status of that effort (both for scalar and vector instruction set extensions), highlighting some of the more interesting challenges along the way. Looking to the future, we’ll explore how the nature of LLVM development for RISC-V is changing as support for the standard ratified extensions matures, more hardware reaches the market, and as RISC-V support is added for additional LLVM project tools and sub-projects beyond the backend and the Clang C/C++ frontend.
Bio
Alex Bradbury is a compiler engineer at Igalia, working within a growing LLVM sub-team largely focused on RISC-V compiler support. He has been heavily involved in the RISC-V ecosystem since its inception, working across the hardware and software stack, previously co-founding lowRISC CIC. He initiated the upstream RISC-V LLVM backend implementation, authoring the initial patchset, acting as upstream code owner, and collaborating with a growing set of contributors. Alex is also well known within the LLVM community for the LLVM Weekly newsletter.
