Commit d15c758f authored by Hans Wennborg's avatar Hans Wennborg
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ReleaseNotes: some notes from Andres Freund

llvm-svn: 341916
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@@ -116,6 +116,8 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
* The :program:`opt` tool now supports the ``-load-pass-plugin`` option for
  loading pass plugins for the new PassManager.

* Support for profiling JITed code with perf.


Changes to the LLVM IR
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@@ -277,6 +279,9 @@ Changes to the C API
  interface was made a deprecated no-op in LLVM 5. Use
  ``LLVMAddSLPVectorizePass`` instead to get the supported SLP vectorizer.

* Expanded the OrcJIT APIs so they can register event listeners like debuggers
  and profilers.

Changes to the DAG infrastructure
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* ``ADDC``/``ADDE``/``SUBC``/``SUBE`` are now deprecated and will default to expand. Backends