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| author | Sean Silva <chisophugis@gmail.com> | 2015-08-06 22:03:54 +0000 |
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| committer | Sean Silva <chisophugis@gmail.com> | 2015-08-06 22:03:54 +0000 |
| commit | 6cdd2fe0a9c2cf163981e5e518e355e8a993cd1e (patch) | |
| tree | c9bda9120a517d5ab64028e9667734c698ae2ecd /llvm | |
| parent | 8b3b09fdcfaffbd39b2adfc05e053ca019ef965b (diff) | |
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Describe the process better.
Patch by Vedant Kumar! <vsk@apple.com>
llvm-svn: 244283
Diffstat (limited to 'llvm')
| -rw-r--r-- | llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst | 8 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst index 005a325684e..ea498dde459 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst @@ -509,9 +509,11 @@ for llvm users and not imposing a big burden on llvm developers: ``test/Bitcode/compatibility.ll``. * The bitcode format produced by a X.Y release will be readable by all - following X.Z releases and the (X+1).0 release. To help ensure this, an X.Y - version of ``test/Bitcode/compatibility.ll`` should be assembled and - committed after each release. + following X.Z releases and the (X+1).0 release. + +* After each X.Y release, ``compatibility.ll`` must be copied to + ``compatibility-X.Y.ll``. The corresponding bitcode file should be assembled + using the X.Y build and committed as ``compatibility-X.Y.ll.bc``. * Newer releases can ignore features from older releases, but they cannot miscompile them. For example, if nsw is ever replaced with something else, |
