Awesome LLVM

This repo includes LLVM-related projects, websites, docs, and other resources. Only well-maintained resources are included; PRs are welcome. This README.md itself mostly records LLVM backend (as well as mixed) resources; for Clang-specific ones, please check Clang.md in this repo.

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Websites(references)

• 🐉 http://llvm.org/, and its doxygen docs
• 🐉 https://llvm.org/devmtg/ - LLVM Developers' Meeting and other events
  • 📹 2023
• 🐉 http://blog.llvm.org/ - official blog
• 🐉 discourse forum
• 🐉 llvm-commits archives
• 🐉 llvm-bugs archives
• 🐉 LLVMProj @ YouTube - official account, including LLVM devmeeting, EuroLLVM, etc
• 🐉 Open Projects
• 🐉 LLVM Community events calendar
• llvm-weekly and its Mastodon page by Alex Bradbury
• The Architecture of Open Source Applications - LLVM
• Eli Bendersky's website
• ChenWj's LLVM Wiki(Traditional Chinese)
• An Unofficial LLVM Website
• LLVM @ StackOverflow
• LLVM @ reddit
• GitHub LLVM topic
• LLVM documentation in hdoc
• ELLCC - Online LLVM Demo Page

Tutorials/Documentation (reference)

• 🐉 LLVM Tutorials - a list of tutorials
  • Python Version of the LLVM Tutorial
• 🐉 LLVM Language Reference Manual - detailed docs for LLVM IR/Bitcode
  • 🐉 LLVM Bitcode File Format
  • 🐉 The Often Misunderstood GEP Instruction
  • 🐉 Opaque Pointers - Opaque pointer that was introduced in LLVM14 and fully deprecates typed pointers in LLVM17
  • A Gentle Introduction to LLVM IR, with a Chinese translation version
  • PSA: Instruction-constructors changing to iterator-only insertion - VSCode LLVM Compiler Explorer
• 🐉 LLVM Programmer’s Manual - how to develop using LLVM infrastructure
  • 🐉 LLVM Coding Standards
  • 🐉 LLVM Developer Policy
  • 🐉 LLVM Style RTTI
  • 🐉 Source Level Debugging
  • 🐉 Create A Project
  • 🐉 Exception Handling in LLVM
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  • 📹 A Tour of ADT - the LLVM Developer's Toolbox
• 🐉 CommandLine 2.0 Library Manual - LLVM's CLI option parser library, used by all LLVM CLI tools etc
• 🐉 Getting Started with the LLVM System - LLVM project's build, configurations, directory layouts etc
• 🐉 LLVM’s Analysis and Transform Passes
  • 🐉 Using the New Pass Manager - LLVM's new pass manager for optimization (both CLI and API changed)
  • 🐉 Writing an LLVM Pass
  • 🐉 LLVM Alias Analysis Infrastructure
  • Tracing Memory Access With an LLVM Pass - a blog post details how to implement an LLVM Pass that allows for tracing memory access
• 🐉 LLVM Testing Infrastructure Guide
• 🐉 Writing an LLVM Backend
• 🐉 LLVM Remarks - emit diagnostics describing whether an optimization is performed/missed
• 🐉 LLVM FAQ - Frequently Asked Questions
• Sanitizers - AddressSanitizer, MemorySanitizer, ThreadSanitizer, UndefinedBehaviorSanitizer, LeakSanitizer, etc
• Tutorial: Creating an LLVM Backend for the Cpu0 Architecture
• LLVM-Tutor - A collection of out-of-tree LLVM passes for teaching and learning
• learning-llvm - a project for learning about llvm
• LLVM-Pass-Analysis-Collection - A Collection of LLVM Pass for Program Analysis
• srg-llvm-pass-tutorial - A tutorial about llvm passes from Software reliability group
• 📃 Get Started with the LLVM C API
• lahiri-phdworks/LLVM-Examples - LLVM Repository and Code samples. LLVM Passes and quick bytes.
• wuzhanglin/llvm-IR-examples - Some examples for using LLVM to generate IR
• llvm-ir-tutorial (in Chinese)
• 📹 LLVM Tutorial Walkthrough -- Toby Ho's tutorial
• 📹 Introduction to the Low-Level Virtual Machine (LLVM) - UFMG's Compilers Lab's tutorial
• 📹 Understanding Compiler Optimization - Chandler Carruth's Opening Keynote Meeting C++ 2015
• 🐉 Tools for Learning LLVM TableGen - tutorial by David Spickett about LLVM's TableGen

Publications

• http://llvm.org/pubs/
• LLVM @ Google Scholar
• LLVM @ ACM-DL
• LLVM @ IEEEXplore
• LLVM @ DBLP
• 📖 Learn LLVM 12 - good to start with
• 📖 Learn LLVM 17 Second Edition
• 📖 Getting Started with LLVM Core Libraries, also available on ACM library
• 📖 LLVM Cookbook
• 📖 LLVM Essentials
• 📖 LLVM Techniques, Tips, and Best Practices Clang and Middle-End Libraries
• 📖 Engineering LLVM Backend

Official Tools/Libraries (reference)

• Core Utilities
  • opt - LLVM optimizer, for LLVM analysis and transformation passes, works on .ll or .bc files
    • 📹 Core C++ 2021 :: opt-viewer: Inspecting compiler optimizations in high-level code
    • 📹 LLVM Optimization Remarks - Ofek Shilon - CppCon 2022
  • lli - Directly execute/intepreter programs from LLVM bitcode, running on .ll or .bc files
  • llvm-dis - LLVM disassembler, from .bc to .ll
  • llvm-as - LLVM assembler, from .ll to .bc
  • llvm-link - LLVM bitcode linker, merge multiple .bcs/.lls into one
  • llvm-dwarfdump - Print contents of DWARF sections, llvm-dwarfdump -a main.o
  • llvm-config - Print LLVM compilation options, e.g., llvm-config --includedir
  • llvm-extract - Extract functions from an LLVM module
  • llvm-bcanalyzer - LLVM bitcode analyzer, llvm-bcanalyzer main.bc
  • llvm-objdump - LLVM's objdump, llvm-objdump -a main.o
  • llvm-nm - LLVM's nm
  • llvm-readelf - LLVM's readelf, llvm-readelf -a main.o
  • llvm-readobj - LLVM object reader, llvm-readobj --all main.o
  • llvm-diff - LLVM structural "diff"
  • llc - LLVM static compiler, compile LLVM IR to native assembly, llc main.ll -o main.s
  • llvm-ar(llvm-ranlib) - LLVM archiver
  • llvm-mca - LLVM Machine Code Analyzer
  • lit - LLVM Integrated Tester, for testing purpose during development
• libc++ - LLVM's implementation of C++ standard library
• libc++abi - LLVM's C++ ABI library that provides an implementation of the library portion of the Itanium C++ ABI
• Compiler-RT - runtime libraries, including sanitizers, profiling utilities, etc
• MLIR - Multi-Level Intermediate Representation
  • 🐉 MLIR News - MLIR News issue on discourse
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  • llvm/Torch-LLVM - first class support from the PyTorch ecosystem to the MLIR ecosystem
  • llvm/Polygeist - C/C++ frontend for MLIR
  • j2kun/mlir-tutorial - a series of articles on the MLIR framework for building compilers
  • Lewuathe/mlir-hello - minimal Hello-World example of MLIR
  • melior - The rustic MLIR bindings in Rust; see also introduction blog post
  • Sparsifier - Google MLIR sparsifier
  • intel/mlir-extensions - Intel® Extension for MLIR
  • MLIR Workshop @ EuroLLVM 2024 -- topics with slides available, also notes about MLIR at round table
  • 📹 MLIR Is Not an ML Compiler, and Other Common Misconceptions
  • out-of-tree MLIR project templates: zincnode/mlir-he, jmgorius/mlir-standalone-template, Lewuathe/mlir-hello
  • Working with MLIR
• libfuzzer - a library for coverage-guided fuzz testing
• LLD - LLVM's integrated linker, similar to GNU ld and gold linker
  • relevant: LLVM Gold Linker plugin
• LLDB - LLVM's LLDB Debugger
  • 🐉 GDB to LLDB command map
• LLVM's libunwind - an implementation of the interface defined by the HP libunwind project
• Polly - LLVM Framework for High-Level Loop and Data-Locality Optimizations
• OpenMP in LLVM
  • 🐉 LLVM OpenMP @ discourse
• OpenCL C in LLVM - open source, BSD/MIT dual licensed implementation of the library requirements of the OpenCL C programming language
• BOLT - a post-link optimizer developed to speed up large applications

Unofficial Tools/Libraries (reference)

• SVF-tools - Pointer Analysis and Program Dependence Analysis for C and C++ Programs
• smack - SMACK Software Verifier and Verification Toolchain
• Phasar - A LLVM-based static analysis framework
• Infer - Facebook's static analysis framework; C/C++/objc is based on LLVM/Clang
• mstorsjo/llvm-mingw - An LLVM/Clang/LLD based mingw-w64 toolchain
• microsoft/llvm-mctoll - statically (AOT) translates (or raises) binaries to LLVM IR
• mcsema - An x86 to LLVM IR decompiler
• whole-program-llvm - A wrapper script to build whole-program LLVM bitcode files; its go port gllvm
• ollvm - code obfuscation based on LLVM4.0
• S2E - Selective Symbolic Execution (use KLEE as symbolic executor)
• RetDec - a retargetable machine-code decompiler based on LLVM
• capstone - Disassembler based on the MC component of the LLVM compiler infrastructure
• DWGrep - A tool for querying Dwarf (debuginfo) graphs
• Emscripten - An LLVM-to-JavaScript Compiler
• cling - The cling C++ interpreter (1.0 has been released)
• remill - Library for lifting machine code to LLVM bitcode
• llvm2cpg - LLVM meets Code Property Graphs
• QBDI - A Dynamic Binary Instrumentation framework based on LLVM
• circt - Circuit IR Compilers and Tools
• American fuzzy lop (AFL) - LLVM mode for instrumentation
• klee - Symbolic Virtual Machine
• IKOS - Static analyzer for C/C++ based on the theory of Abstract Interpretation.
• diffkemp - Static analysis of semantic differences in kernel versionsa
• GaloisInc/yapall - A precise and scalable pointer analysis for LLVM, written in Ascent
• llvm2c - Decompiler of LLVM bitcode to C
• dr checker - A Soundy Vulnerability Detection Tool for Linux Kernel Drivers
• DG - Various program analyses, construction of dependence graphs and program slicing of LLVM bitcode
  • dg can integrate SVF, see here for details
• llvm-crash-analyzer -- crash analysis against coredump files based on LLVM Machine-IR, together with LLDB
• seahorn/clam - a static analyzer (CLI) based on seahorn/crab, the latter of which is abstract Interpretation-based library

Bindings

• llvmlite - A lightweight LLVM python binding for writing JIT compilers
• LLVM Rust crates - Rust bindings
• go-llvm - Go binding

LLVM-backed Languages

• C/C++/ObjC/ObjC++
• Swift
• GHC Haskell
• Rust
• Julia
• scala-native
• ldc
• Crystal
• codon
• numba
• mojo
• solang
• Ola - a toy language, for learning LLVM-backend codegen
• go-llvm

Setup

• ⚙️ LLVM Debian/Ubuntu nightly packages - Debian APT sources
• ⚙️ Mac OS Homebrew Formula - HomeBrew's LLVM formula

Other relevant resources:

• awesome-llvm-security - awesome llvm security projects
• static-analysis - A curated list of static analysis tools and linters for all programming languages, config files, build tools, and more
• dynamic-analysis - A curated list of dynamic analysis tools and linters for all programming languages, binaries, and more
• LLVM-Guide
• program analysis topics on GitHub
• other awesome lists on GitHub
• List of tools for static code analysis (on Wikipedia)