Remove references to the 4.0 release as a major breaking (NFC)
authorMehdi Amini <joker.eph@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:49:07 +0000 (23:49 +0000)
committerMehdi Amini <joker.eph@gmail.com>
Thu, 25 Jun 2020 23:49:07 +0000 (23:49 +0000)
commit4abf0243367d6e923cfa1a32e26ac3cb7787e3c9
tree34c76fa120dfd6aae067bb49d7e59d6b4b2b530f
parentb2303debfa63b60c21c93c318bed63341564a549
Remove references to the 4.0 release as a major breaking (NFC)

This is cleaning up comments (mostly in the bitcode handling) about
removing some backward compatibility aspect in the 4.0 release.
Historically, "4.0" was used during the development of the 3.x
versions as "this future major breaking change version". At the time
the major number was used to indicate the compatibility. When we
reached 3.9 we decided to change the numbering, instead of going to
3.10 we went to 4.0 but after changing the meaning of the major
number to not mean anything anymore with respect to bitcode backward
compatibility.

The current policy
(https://llvm.org/docs/DeveloperPolicy.html#ir-backwards-compatibility)
indicates only now:

  The current LLVM version supports loading any bitcode since version 3.0.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D82514
llvm/docs/HowToUseAttributes.rst
llvm/include/llvm/Bitcode/LLVMBitCodes.h
llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeAnalyzer.cpp
llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/MetadataLoader.cpp
llvm/lib/IR/DataLayout.cpp