Remove bit-rotten CppBackend.

This backend was supposed to generate C++ code which will re-construct the LLVM IR passed as input. This seems to me to have very marginal usefulness in the first place. However, the code has never been updated to use IRBuilder, which makes its current value negative -- people who look at the output may be steered to use the *wrong* C++ APIs to construct IR. Furthermore, it's generated code that doesn't compile since at least 2013. Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19942 llvm-svn: 268631
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diff --git a/llvm/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/CMakeLists.txt
@@ -226,7 +226,6 @@ set(LLVM_ALL_TARGETS
   AMDGPU
   ARM
   BPF
-  CppBackend
   Hexagon
   Mips
   MSP430

diff --git a/llvm/docs/CodeGenerator.rst b/llvm/docs/CodeGenerator.rst
@@ -1771,13 +1771,11 @@ table that summarizes what features are supported by each target.
 Target Feature Matrix
 ---------------------
 
-Note that this table does not include the C backend or Cpp backends, since they
-do not use the target independent code generator infrastructure.  It also
-doesn't list features that are not supported fully by any target yet.  It
-considers a feature to be supported if at least one subtarget supports it.  A
-feature being supported means that it is useful and works for most cases, it
-does not indicate that there are zero known bugs in the implementation.  Here is
-the key:
+Note that this table does not list features that are not supported fully by any
+target yet.  It considers a feature to be supported if at least one subtarget
+supports it.  A feature being supported means that it is useful and works for
+most cases, it does not indicate that there are zero known bugs in the
+implementation.  Here is the key:
 
 :raw-html:`<table border="1" cellspacing="0">`
 :raw-html:`<tr>`

diff --git a/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst b/llvm/docs/GettingStarted.rst
@@ -730,9 +730,9 @@ used by people developing LLVM.
 |                         | the configure script. The default list is defined  |
 |                         | as ``LLVM_ALL_TARGETS``, and can be set to include |
 |                         | out-of-tree targets. The default value includes:   |
-|                         | ``AArch64, AMDGPU, ARM, BPF, CppBackend, Hexagon,  |
-|                         | Mips, MSP430, NVPTX, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ       |
-|                         | X86, XCore``.                                      |
+|                         | ``AArch64, AMDGPU, ARM, BPF, Hexagon, Mips,        |
+|                         | MSP430, NVPTX, PowerPC, Sparc, SystemZ, X86,       |
+|                         | XCore``.                                           |
 +-------------------------+----------------------------------------------------+
 | LLVM_ENABLE_DOXYGEN     | Build doxygen-based documentation from the source  |
 |                         | code This is disabled by default because it is     |

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/CppBackend/CMakeLists.txt b/llvm/lib/Target/CppBackend/CMakeLists.txt