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Bump minimal supported LLVM version to 9 This bumps the minimal tested llvm version to 9. This should enable supporting newer LLVM features (and CPU extensions). This was motived by #78361 having to drop features because of LLVM 8 not supporting certain CPU extensions yet. This was declared relatively uncontroversial on [Zulip](https://rust-lang.zulipchat.com/#narrow/stream/182449-t-compiler.2Fhelp/topic/Min.20Supported.20LLVM.20Upgrade.20Process.3F/near/215957859). Paging ````@eddyb```` because there was a comment in the [dockerfile](https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/master/src/ci/docker/host-x86_64/x86_64-gnu-llvm-8/Dockerfile#L42) describing a hack (which I don't quite understand) which was also blocked by not having LLVM 9. |
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The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.