From c169fa6f1095ef1a29aaafbf07a7e26e8d470d26 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Sean Silva Date: Thu, 6 Aug 2015 22:03:54 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Describe the process better. Patch by Vedant Kumar! git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@244283 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst | 8 +++++--- 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) diff --git a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst b/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst index 005a325684e..ea498dde459 100644 --- a/docs/DeveloperPolicy.rst +++ b/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, -- 2.34.1