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ReleaseNotes: Add a blurb about llvm-mc -g and move inliner changes into the optimizer sections. Verbosify some bullets.

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@ -448,15 +448,14 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
expose new optimization opportunities:</p>
<ul>
<li>IR support for half float</li>
<li>IR support for vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
<li>A new type representing 16 bit <i>half</i> floating point values has
been added.</li>
<li>IR now supports vectors of pointers, including vector GEPs.</li>
<li>Module flags have been introduced. They convey information about the
module as a whole to LLVM subsystems.</li>
module as a whole to LLVM subsystems. This is currently used to encode
Objective C ABI information.</li>
<li>Loads can now have range metadata attached to them to describe the
possible values being loaded.</li>
<li>Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.</li>
<li>....</li>
</ul>
</div>
@ -481,6 +480,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
post-vectorization cleanup passes. For more information, see the EuroLLVM
2012 slides: <a href="http://llvm.org/devmtg/2012-04-12/Slides/Hal_Finkel.pdf">
Autovectorization with LLVM</a>.</li>
<li>Inline cost heuristics have been completely overhauled and now closely
model constant propagation through call sites, disregard trivially dead
code costs, and can model C++ STL iterator patterns.</li>
<li>....</li>
</ul>
@ -501,6 +503,9 @@ Release Notes</a>.</h1>
to the LLVM MC Project Blog Post</a>.</p>
<ul>
<li>The integrated assembler can optionally emit debug information when
assembling a </tt>.s</tt> file. It can be enabled by passing the
<tt>-g</tt> option to <tt>llvm-mc</tt>.</li>
<li>....</li>
</ul>