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@@ -54,8 +54,9 @@ Non-comprehensive list of changes in this release
its nature as a general purpose PDB manipulation / diagnostics tool that does
more than just dumping contents.
-
-* ... next change ...
+* The ``BBVectorize`` pass has been removed. It was fully replaced and no
+ longer used back in 2014 but we didn't get around to removing it. Now it is
+ gone. The SLP vectorizer is the suggested non-loop vectorization pass.
.. NOTE
If you would like to document a larger change, then you can add a
@@ -108,6 +109,15 @@ Changes to the OCaml bindings
During this release ...
+Changes to the C API
+--------------------
+
+* Deprecated the ``LLVMAddBBVectorizePass`` interface since the ``BBVectorize``
+ pass has been removed. It is now a no-op and will be removed in the next
+ release. Use ``LLVMAddSLPVectorizePass`` instead to get the supported SLP
+ vectorizer.
+
+
External Open Source Projects Using LLVM 5
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