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Clear the release notes for 5.0.0 

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========================
LLVM 4.0.0 Release Notes
LLVM 5.0.0 Release Notes
========================
.. contents::
:local:
.. warning::
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 4.0.0 release. You may
prefer the `LLVM 3.9 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/3.9.0/docs
These are in-progress notes for the upcoming LLVM 5 release. You may
prefer the `LLVM 4 Release Notes <http://llvm.org/releases/4.0.0/docs
/ReleaseNotes.html>`_.
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============
This document contains the release notes for the LLVM Compiler Infrastructure,
release 4.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
release 5.0.0. Here we describe the status of LLVM, including major improvements
from the previous release, improvements in various subprojects of LLVM, and
some of the current users of the code. All LLVM releases may be downloaded
from the `LLVM releases web site <http://llvm.org/releases/>`_.
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Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
=================================================
* The C API functions LLVMAddFunctionAttr, LLVMGetFunctionAttr,
LLVMRemoveFunctionAttr, LLVMAddAttribute, LLVMRemoveAttribute,
LLVMGetAttribute, LLVMAddInstrAttribute and
LLVMRemoveInstrAttribute have been removed.
* The C API enum LLVMAttribute has been deleted.
.. NOTE
For small 1-3 sentence descriptions, just add an entry at the end of
this list. If your description won't fit comfortably in one bullet
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functionality, or simply have a lot to talk about), see the `NOTE` below
for adding a new subsection.
* The definition and uses of LLVM_ATRIBUTE_UNUSED_RESULT in the LLVM source
were replaced with LLVM_NODISCARD, which matches the C++17 [[nodiscard]]
semantics rather than gcc's __attribute__((warn_unused_result)).
* Minimum compiler version to build has been raised to GCC 4.8 and VS 2015.
* The Timer related APIs now expect a Name and Description. When upgrading code
the previously used names should become descriptions and a short name in the
style of a programming language identifier should be added.
* ... next change ...
.. NOTE
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Changes to the AVR Target
-----------------------------
* The entire backend has been merged in-tree with all tests passing. All of
the instruction selection code and the machine code backend has landed
recently and is fully usable.
During this release ...
Changes to the OCaml bindings
-----------------------------
* The attribute API was completely overhauled, following the changes
to the C API.
During this release ...
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 4.0.0
==============================================
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 5
==========================================
* A project...