[llvm-dev] [LLParser] Remove deplibs related defines and functions

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Thu, 27 May 2021 12:40:50 -0000

> I tried this cleanup in 2020, but a point was raised that this can be
> used to read old bitcode files. See https://reviews.llvm.org/D73422

D73422 removed both textual IR parsing and bitcode reading.  Textual IR
never really had any backward-compatibility guarantees.  The new patch
removes only textual IR parsing, it does not remove bitcode reading; it
should be fine to do this.
--paulr