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Hi Dan, I am not against adding multi-line support for Metadata. I am also okay with your syntax, and I am also okay with other solutions, such as escaping of \n’s or adopting c-style concatenations of strings on multiple lines. But I think that serialization of MachineFunction should not be done in metadata. I understand the problem that you pointer out that machine instructions refer to

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Hello, I propose a new syntax for metadata strings (MDStrings) which would allow string data to be spread over multiple lines: !0 = metadata !{metadata !""" hello world """} The special three-quote sequence marks the beginning and end of a multi-line string. This syntax could have a variety of uses, but of particular interest is that it could be used as a basis