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Add improvements to the code generator. 

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@ -109,8 +109,16 @@ href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR220">install</a>" and <a
href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR203">RPM package generation</a>.</li>
<li>The "tblgen" tool is <a href="TableGenFundamentals.html">now documented</a>.</li>
<li>The LLVM code generator can now fold spill code into instructions on targets
that support it.</li>
<li>The LLVM code generator got a multitude of improvements:
<ul>
<li>It can now fold spill code into instructions on targets that support it.</li>
<li>A generic machine code spiller/rewriter was added. It provides an API for
global register allocators to eliminate virtual registers and add the
appropriate spill code.</li>
<li>The represenation of machine basic blocks got cleaned up and improved to
allow easier development and more efficient implementation.</li>
</ul>
</li>
<li><a href="http://llvm.cs.uiuc.edu/PR253">LLVM now no longer depends on the boost library</a>.</li>
<li>The X86 backend now generates <b>substantially</b> better native code, and is faster.</li>
<li>The C backend has been turned moved from the "llvm-dis" tool to the "llc"