LLVM 6.0.0 Release Notes

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Introduction

This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure, release 5.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded from the LLVM releases web site.

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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release

  • The Redirects argument of llvm::sys::ExecuteAndWait and llvm::sys::ExecuteNoWait was changed to an ArrayRef of optional StringRef‘s to make it safer and more convenient to use.
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Additional Information

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