[llvm] r268631 - Remove bit-rotten CppBackend.

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-commits]

On Thu, May 5, 2016 at 7:35 AM, James Y Knight via llvm-commits
<llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> Author: jyknight
> Date: Thu May  5 09:35:40 2016
> New Revision: 268631
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=268631&view=rev
> Log:
> Remove bit-rotten CppBackend.
>
> This backend was supposed to generate C++ code which will re-construct
> the LLVM IR passed as input. This seems to me to have very marginal
> usefulness in the first place.
>
> However, the code has never been updated to use IRBuilder, which makes
> its current value negative -- people who look at the output may be
> steered to use the *wrong* C++ APIs to construct IR.
>
> Furthermore, it's generated code that doesn't compile since at least
> 2013.
>
> Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19942

Want to add a note about this in docs/ReleaseNotes.rst?

Cheers,
Hans