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Flesh out the Objective-C section a bit. This may well need some love 

from the Objective-C experts, but the basic stuff is there now.

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information for LLDB and other clients which dynamically build AST nodes.</li>
<li>Memory reduction -- initializers, macro expansions, source locations,
etc.</li>
<li>ObjC ARC -- get a blurb from rjmccall</li>
<li>ObjC related result type/instancetype</li>
<li>Thread Safety attributes and correctness analysis added to Clang.</li>
<li>Major improvements to the interactions between serializing and
deserializing the AST and the preprocessor -- argiris</li>
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<!-- = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = = -->
<h3 id="objcchanges">Objective-C Language Changes in Clang</h3>
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Clang 3.0 introduces several new Objective-C language features and improvements.
<h4 id="objc_arc">Objective-C Automatic Reference Counting</h4>
<!-- This is really just a stub for John to flesh out regarding ARC. -->
ARC provides automated memory management for Objective-C programs that is
compatible with existing retain/release code. ARC is carefully built to
be a reliable programming model that errs on the side of producing a
compiler error instead of silently producing a runtime memory problem.
ARC automates Objective-C objects, not malloc data, file descriptors,
CoreFoundation datatypes or anything else. For more details, see the
<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/AutomaticReferenceCounting.html">full specification</a>.
<h4 id="objc_instancetype">Objective-C Related Result Types / Instance
Types</h4>
Allows declaring new methods which follow the Cocoa conventions for methods
such as <code>init</code> which always return objects that are an instance of
the receiving class's type. For more details, see the
<a href="http://clang.llvm.org/docs/LanguageExtensions.html#objc_instancetype">language extension documentation</a>.
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<h3 id="apichanges">Internal API Changes</h3>