First official release of LLVM Flang

LLVM Fortran Levels Up: Goodbye flang-new, Hello flang! By David Spickett #Flang , #MLIR 33 minute read LLVM has included a Fortran compiler “Flang” since LLVM 11 in late 2020. However, until recently the Flang binary was not flang (like clang ) but instead flang-new . LLVM 20 ends the era of flang-new . The community has decided that Flang is worthy of a new name. The “new” name? You guessed it, flang . A simple change that represents a major milestone for Flang. This article will cover the almost 10 year journey of Flang. The first concepts, multiple rewrites, the adoption of LLVM’s Multi Level Intermediate Representation (MLIR) and Flang entering the LLVM Project. If you want to try flang right now, you can download it or try it in your browser using Compiler Explorer. Why Fortran? Fortran was first created in the 1950s, and the name came from “Formula Translation”. Fortran focused on the mathematics use case and freed programmers from writing assembly code that could o ... Read full article.