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[clang][docs][release notes] mention asm goto support
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By Nick Desaulniers!

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65302

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in all C-family languages. This macro is similar to ``__FILE__`` except it
will always provide the last path component when possible.

- Initial support for ``asm goto`` statements (a GNU C extension) has been
added for control flow from inline assembly to labels. The main consumers of
this construct are the Linux kernel (CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y) and glib. There are
still a few unsupported corner cases in Clang's integrated assembler and
IfConverter. Please file bugs for any issues you run into.

- ...

C11 Feature Support
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Significant Known Problems
==========================

Linux Kernel
============

With support for asm goto, the mainline Linux kernel for x86_64 is now buildable
(and bootable) with Clang 9. Other architectures that don't require
CONFIG_JUMP_LABEL=y such as arm, aarch64, ppc32, ppc64le, (and possibly mips)
have been supported with older releases of Clang (Clang 4 was first used with
aarch64).

The Android and ChromeOS Linux distributions have moved to building their Linux
kernels with Clang, and Google is currently testing Clang built kernels for
their production Linux kernels.

Further, LLD, llvm-objcopy, llvm-ar, llvm-nm, llvm-objdump can all be used to
build a working Linux kernel.

More information about building Linux kernels with Clang can be found:

- `ClangBuiltLinux web page <https://clangbuiltlinux.github.io/>`_.
- `Issue Tracker <https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues>`_.
- `Wiki <https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/wiki>`_.
- `Mailing List <clang-built-linux@googlegroups.com>`_.
- `Bi-weekly Meeting <https://calendar.google.com/calendar/embed?src=google.com_bbf8m6m4n8nq5p2bfjpele0n5s%40group.calendar.google.com>`_.
- #clangbuiltlinux on Freenode.
- `Clang Meta bug <https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=4068>`_.
- `Continuous Integration <https://travis-ci.com/ClangBuiltLinux/continuous-integration>`_.

Additional Information
======================

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