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LLVM's Modern "Flang-New" Fortran Compiler Renamed To "Flang"

([LLVM] 3 Hours Ago Flang-New Renamed)


LLVM's modern Fortran compiler "flang-new" has now been renamed to "flang" for next year's LLVM 20 update.

As I wrote about back in August, [1]LLVM's newer Flang compiler code has been looking quite good and over the past year and a half have been discussions of renaming "flang-new" back to "flang". for reflecting the maturing state and growing out of its experimental phase.

[2]This merge request landed into LLVM Git this past week for globally renaming flang-new over to flang. This Fortran compiler now known as just "flang" is increasingly great shape but some features such as OpenMP support remain experimental.

This renamed flang-new to flang is in LLVM Git ahead of the LLVM 20.1 release expected around March of next year. We'll see what more Fortran/Flang improvements land for that front-end compiler in the coming months. Those curious about LLVM's Fortran language support can see the [3]LLVM.org documentation for more information.



[1] https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLVM-Flang-New-Looking-Good

[2] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/110023

[3] https://flang.llvm.org/docs/



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