[Linker] Drop support for IR-level extended linking support (archives, etc.).
- This code is dead, and the "right" way to get this support is to use the
platform-specific linker-integrated LTO mechanisms, or the forthcoming LLVM
linker.
git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@172749 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
index 2de4ebb..f69308e 100644
--- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
+++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst
@@ -500,7 +500,9 @@
The ``TargetData`` structure has been renamed to ``DataLayout`` and moved to
``VMCore`` to remove a dependency on ``Target``.
-#. ...
+#. The IR-level extended linker APIs (for example, to link bitcode files out of
+ archives) have been removed. Any existing clients of these features should
+ move to using a linker with integrated LTO support.
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