Loongson said today that the LLVM international open source software community released version 16.0.0 on March 18, releasing the LoongArch instruction set architecture at the official backend (official target) level.
According to reports, so far the five most important basic software (BIG FIVE) in the open source software world, namely the Linux kernel, GCC, LLVM, Glibc, and Binutils, have released official versions that support the LoongArch architecture. Subsequent releases of the LoongArch architecture operating system will be directly based on the upstream community version.
Loongson LoongArch pointed out that LLVM is one of the most important frameworks for designing and developing compilers today. It not only provides C/C++ compiler front-end clang, but also provides compilation framework support for many other programming languages such as Rust.
It is learned from the official data of Loongson LoongArch that since 2022, Loongson LoongArch has contributed 65,000 lines of source code to the LLVM community. In addition, open source developers from home and abroad have also contributed nearly 5,000 lines of LoongArch architecture support code to the LLVM community.
