Flang |version| (In-Progress) Release Notes

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Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the Flang Fortran frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release |version|. Here we describe the status of Flang in some detail, including major improvements from the previous release and new feature work. For the general LLVM release notes, see the LLVM documentation. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

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Major New Features

Bug Fixes

Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

New Compiler Flags

Windows Support

Fortran Language Changes in Flang

Build System Changes

• The FortranRuntime library has been renamed to flang_rt.runtime.

• The FortranFloat128Math library has been renamed to flang_rt.quadmath.

• The CufRuntime_cuda_${version} library has been renamed to flang_rt.cuda_${version}.

• The Fortran Runtime library has been move to a new top-level directory named “flang-rt”. It now supports the LLVM_ENABLE_RUNTIMES mechanism to build Flang-RT for multiple target triples. libflang_rt.runtime.{a|so} will now be emitted into Clang’s per-target resource directory (next to libclang_rt..) where it is also found by Flang’s driver.

New Issues Found

Additional Information

Flang’s documentation is located in the flang/docs/ directory in the LLVM monorepo.

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