[GHC] #4213: LLVM: Add support for TNTC to LLVM compiler suite

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#4213: LLVM: Add support for TNTC to LLVM compiler suite
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        Reporter:  dterei            |            Owner:  dterei
            Type:  feature request   |           Status:  new
        Priority:  low               |        Milestone:  7.6.2
       Component:  Compiler (LLVM)   |          Version:  6.13
      Resolution:                    |         Keywords:
Operating System:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
 Type of failure:  None/Unknown      |       Difficulty:  Unknown
       Test Case:                    |       Blocked By:  9142
        Blocking:                    |  Related Tickets:
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Comment (by bgamari):

 Replying to [comment:30 altaic]:
 > Replying to [comment:24 bgamari]:
 > > I hope that the LLVM folks would reject outright any proposal to
 change the semantics of an already released feature in a non-compatible
 way.
 >
 > An already released feature which is likely to have yet to be used in
 the wild.
 >
 It seems like there's a chance that the revision that you suggest might
 happen. In the
 [http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvmdev/2014-May/073260.html words] of
 LLVM-er Reid Kleckner,

 > I worry that symbol_offset combined with prefix are too low-level.  What
 if we split this up into something like prefix data "prologue" data?
 Prefix data would be an arbitrary LLVM constant, and prologue data is a
 byte sequence of native executable code.

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