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2LLVM 3.5 Release Notes
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8.. warning::
9   These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.5 release.  You may
10   prefer the `LLVM 3.4 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.4/docs
11   /ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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14Introduction
15============
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17This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
18release 3.5.  Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
19from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
20some of the current users of the code.  All LLVM releases may be downloaded
21from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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23For more information about LLVM, including information about the latest
24release, please check out the `main LLVM web site <http://llvm.org/>`_.  If you
25have questions or comments, the `LLVM Developer's Mailing List
26<http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/mailman/listinfo/llvmdev>`_ is a good place to send
27them.
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29Note that if you are reading this file from a Subversion checkout or the main
30LLVM web page, this document applies to the *next* release, not the current
31one.  To see the release notes for a specific release, please see the `releases
32page <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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34Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
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37* All backends have been changed to use the MC asm printer and support for the
38  non MC one has been removed.
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54   Special New Feature
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57   Makes programs 10x faster by doing Special New Thing.
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59External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 3.5
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61
62An exciting aspect of LLVM is that it is used as an enabling technology for
63a lot of other language and tools projects. This section lists some of the
64projects that have already been updated to work with LLVM 3.5.
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67Additional Information
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69
70A wide variety of additional information is available on the `LLVM web page
71<http://llvm.org/>`_, in particular in the `documentation
72<http://llvm.org/docs/>`_ section.  The web page also contains versions of the
73API documentation which is up-to-date with the Subversion version of the source
74code.  You can access versions of these documents specific to this release by
75going into the ``llvm/docs/`` directory in the LLVM tree.
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77If you have any questions or comments about LLVM, please feel free to contact
78us via the `mailing lists <http://llvm.org/docs/#maillist>`_.
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