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This document contains the release notes for the Flang Fortran frontend, part of the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 15.0.0. 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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-fpass-plugin option which is also available in clang. The option mimics the behavior of the corresponding option in clang and has the same capabilities and limitations.flang-new if the cmake command includes -DLLVM_${NAME}_LINK_INTO_TOOLS=ON. This behavior is also similar to clang.flang, is renamed as flang-to-external-fc.-fpie when linking executables. This is only a temporary solution and the goal is to align with Clang in the near future. First, however, the frontend driver needs to be extended so that it can generate position independent code (that requires adding support for e.g. -fpic and -mrelocation-model in flang-new -fc1). Once that is available, support for the -fpie can officially be added and the default behaviour updated.-f{no-}color-diagnostics is treated to better align with Clang. In particular, both -fcolor-diagnostics and -fno-color-diagnostics are now available in flang-new (the diagnostics are formatted by default). In the frontend driver, flang-new -fc1, only -fcolor-diagnostics is available (by default, the diagnostics are not formatted).Flang's documentation is located in the flang/docs/ directory in the LLVM monorepo.
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