LLVM

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compiler infrastructure project open-source software software library toolchain

LLVM is a modular, reusable compiler and toolchain infrastructure project widely used for building language frontends, optimizers, and backends for diverse hardware architectures.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	compiler infrastructure project → open-source software → software library → toolchain →
buildSystem	CMake →
category	compiler infrastructure → program analysis tools → software development tools →
designGoal	language independence → modularity → reusability → support for lifelong program analysis → target independence →
developer	LLVM Project →
firstReleaseYear	2003 →
governanceModel	open-source, community-driven →
hasComponent	AddressSanitizer → Clang → DataFlowSanitizer → FileCheck → LLD linker → LLDB debugger → LLDB-MI (historical) → LLVM Core libraries → LLVM Intermediate Representation → MLIR → MemorySanitizer → OpenMP runtime → Polly → SanitizerCoverage → TableGen → ThreadSanitizer → UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer → clang static analyzer → clang-format → clang-tidy → clangd → compiler-rt → libFuzzer → libLLVM → libc++ → libc++abi → libclang → libunwind → lit test runner → llvm-ar → llvm-as assembler → llvm-config → llvm-dis disassembler → llvm-mc → llvm-nm → llvm-objdump → llvm-readobj → opt optimization tool → sanitizers →
influenced	Emscripten → Julia JIT compiler → Kotlin/Native compiler → MLIR design → Rust compiler backend → Swift compiler design → Zig compiler → various JIT compilers →
influencedBy	SSA-based intermediate representations → traditional compiler design →
license	Apache License 2.0 with LLVM exceptions → University of Illinois/NCSA Open Source License (historical) →
maintainedBy	LLVM community →
operatingSystem	cross-platform →
originalDeveloper	Chris Lattner → Vikram Adve →
originatedAt	University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign →
previousBuildSystem	Autoconf/Make (historical) →
primaryUse	code generation → code optimization → compiler backend → just-in-time compilation → link-time optimization → static analysis →
programmingLanguage	C++ →
repository	https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project →
supportsArchitecture	AArch64 → ARM → MIPS → PowerPC → RISC-V → SPARC → WebAssembly → x86 → x86-64 →
supportsFeature	JIT compilation → LTO plugin for GNU ld and gold → ahead-of-time compilation → coverage instrumentation → debug information generation → exception handling → garbage collection support → interprocedural optimization → link-time optimization (LTO) → linker plugins → profile instrumentation → profile-guided optimization → sanitizer instrumentation → static analysis passes → thin LTO → vectorization → whole-program optimization →
supportsLanguageFrontend	C (via Clang) → C# (via various experimental compilers) → C++ (via Clang) → Crystal → D (via LDC) → Fortran (via Flang and others) → Go (via gccgo-llvm and others, experimental) → Haskell (via GHC backend) → JavaScript (via Emscripten toolchain) → Julia (via Julia compiler) → Kotlin/Native → Lua (via LuaJIT experimental backends) → Nim (via nlvm and others) → Objective-C (via Clang) → Objective-C++ (via Clang) → Ruby (via Rubinius, MRuby variants) → Rust (via rustc) → Swift (via Swift compiler) → Zig →
supportsOperatingSystem	FreeBSD → Linux → Windows → macOS →
usedBy	AMD → ARM Ltd. → Apple → Facebook (Meta) → Google → Intel → Microsoft → Mozilla (via Rust and Firefox tooling) → NVIDIA → Sony → various Unix-like operating systems →
usedIn	Android NDK → Chrome and Chromium build toolchains → FreeBSD base system → GPU shader compilers → OpenBSD base system (partially) → PlayStation SDKs → Xcode toolchain → high-performance computing compilers →
usesFileFormat	LLVM bitcode →
usesIntermediateRepresentation	LLVM IR →
website	https://llvm.org/ →

Referenced by (24)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
LLVM ("LLVM Core libraries") → LLVM ("LLVM Intermediate Representation") → LLVM ("libLLVM") → LLVM ("llvm-as assembler") → LLVM ("llvm-dis disassembler") → LLVM ("UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer") → LLVM ("libFuzzer") → LLVM ("llvm-nm") → LLVM ("llvm-readobj") →	hasComponent
Intel C++ Compiler → Julia →	basedOn
Clang ("LLVM community") → LLVM ("LLVM Project") →	developer
V8 ("TurboFan optimizing compiler") →	feature
RISC-V ("LLVM/Clang for RISC-V") →	hasToolchain
GNU Compiler Collection →	influenced
LLVM ("LLVM community") →	maintainedBy
Clang ("LLVM project") →	partOf
PlaidML →	supportsBackend
Unity ("IL2CPP") →	supportsScriptingBackend
MIPS →	toolchainSupport
Clang →	usesBackend
Swift (programming language) →	usesCompilerInfrastructure
LLVM ("LLVM IR") →	usesIntermediateRepresentation