Clean up AddedComplexity further after adding UseSSEx
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3 LLVM Design & Overview
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9    GetElementPtr
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11 * `LLVM Language Reference Manual <LangRef.html>`_
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13   Defines the LLVM intermediate representation.
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15 * `Introduction to the LLVM Compiler <http://llvm.org/pubs/2008-10-04-ACAT-LLVM-Intro.html>`_
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17   Presentation providing a users introduction to LLVM.
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19 * `Intro to LLVM <http://www.aosabook.org/en/llvm.html>`_
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21   Book chapter providing a compiler hacker's introduction to LLVM.
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23 * `LLVM: A Compilation Framework forLifelong Program Analysis & Transformation
24   <http://llvm.org/pubs/2004-01-30-CGO-LLVM.html>`_
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26   Design overview.
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28 * `LLVM: An Infrastructure for Multi-Stage Optimization
29   <http://llvm.org/pubs/2002-12-LattnerMSThesis.html>`_
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31   More details (quite old now).
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33 * :ref:`gep`
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35   Answers to some very frequent questions about LLVM's most frequently
36   misunderstood instruction.