[LLVMdev] Subtle breaking change in LLVM 2.7 to 2.8 transition

[Duncan Sands]

Hi Ben,

> I updated my from LLVM 2.7 to 2.8/trunk tonight and was mystified as to why my
> GC plugin silently stopped working.
>
> The problem was that the signature of the virtual function
> GCMetadataPrinter::finishAssembly (and beginAssembly) changed.
>
> This change would probably be an excellent candidate for the "gotchas" section
> of the 2.8 release notes.

can you please send some text appropriate for the release notes that explains
the problem.

Thanks a lot,

Duncan.