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authorBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2016-04-13 13:41:09 +0200
committerBen Gamari <ben@smart-cactus.org>2016-04-15 16:24:45 +0200
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users-guide: Note change in LLVM support policy
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@@ -219,6 +219,11 @@ Language
Compiler
~~~~~~~~
+- The LLVM code generator now supports only LLVM 3.7. This is in contrast to our
+ previous policy where GHC would try to support a range of LLVM versions
+ concurrently. We hope that by supporting a narrower range of versions we can
+ provide more reliable support for each.
+
- Warnings can now be controlled with ``-W(no-)...`` flags in addition to
the old ``-f(no-)warn...`` ones. This was done as the first part of a
rewrite of the warning system to provide better control over warnings,