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2 LLVM 3.7 Release Notes
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5 .. contents::
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9 These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 3.7 release. You may
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14 Introduction
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15 ============
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17 This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
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