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Describe the process better. 

Patch by Vedant Kumar! <vsk@apple.com>

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@ -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,