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diff --git a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst index 5eac458b8e7..5a83f5e43a8 100644 --- a/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst +++ b/llvm/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst @@ -528,12 +528,12 @@ for llvm users and not imposing a big burden on llvm developers: C API Changes ---------------- -* Stability Guarantees: The C API is, in general, a “best effort” for stability. +* Stability Guarantees: The C API is, in general, a "best effort" for stability. This means that we make every attempt to keep the C API stable, but that stability will be limited by the abstractness of the interface and the stability -of the C++ API that it wraps. In practice, this means that things like “create -debug info” or “create this type of instruction” are likely to be less stable -than “take this IR file and JIT it for my current machine”. +of the C++ API that it wraps. In practice, this means that things like "create +debug info" or "create this type of instruction" are likely to be less stable +than "take this IR file and JIT it for my current machine". * Release stability: We won’t break the C API on the release branch with patches that go on that branch, with the exception that if we will fix an unintentional |
