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There is no formal policy about when to update LLVM or what it can be updated to,
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but a few guidelines are applied:
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There are two reasons we would want to update LLVM:
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-* A bug could have been fixed! Often we find bugs in the compiler and fix
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- them upstream in LLVM. We'll want to pull fixes back to the compiler itself as
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- they're merged upstream.
+* A bug could have been fixed!
+ Note that if we are the ones who fixed such a bug,
+ we prefer to upstream it, then pull it back for use by rustc.
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* LLVM itself may have a new release.
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