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This adds the LangRef wording for the memory attribute proposed at
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-unify-memory-effect-attributes/65579.

The old attributes are not removed from LangRef until the migration
is finished.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135597
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a new pointer for the original function, which means that code that depends
on function-pointer identity can break. So, any function annotated with
``jumptable`` must also be ``unnamed_addr``.
``memory(...)``
This attribute specifies the possible memory effects of the call-site or
function. It allows specifying the possible access kinds (``none``,
``read``, ``write``, or ``readwrite``) for the possible memory location
kinds (``argmem``, ``inaccessiblemem``, as well as a default). It is best
understood by example:

- ``memory(none)``: Does not access any memory.
- ``memory(read)``: May read (but not write) any memory.
- ``memory(write)``: May write (but not read) any memory.
- ``memory(readwrite)``: May read or write any memory.
- ``memory(argmem: read)``: May only read argument memory.
- ``memory(argmem: read, inaccessiblemem: write)``: May only read argument
memory and only write inaccessible memory.
- ``memory(read, argmem: readwrite)``: May read any memory (default mode)
and additionally write argument memory.
- ``memory(readwrite, argmem: none)``: May access any memory apart from
argument memory.

The supported memory location kinds are:

- ``argmem``: This refers to accesses that are based on pointer arguments
to the function.
- ``inaccessiblemem``: This refers to accesses to memory which is not
accessible by the current module (before return from the function -- an
allocator function may return newly accessible memory while only
accessing inaccessible memory itself). Inaccessible memory is often used
to model control dependencies of intrinsics.
- The default access kind (specified without a location prefix) applies to
all locations that haven't been specified explicitly, including those that
don't currently have a dedicated location kind (e.g. accesses to globals
or captured pointers).

If the ``memory`` attribute is not specified, then ``memory(readwrite)``
is implied (all memory effects are possible).

The memory effects of a call can be computed as
``CallSiteEffects & (FunctionEffects | OperandBundleEffects)``. Thus, the
call-site annotation takes precedence over the potential effects described
by either the function annotation or the operand bundles.
``minsize``
This attribute suggests that optimization passes and code generator
passes make choices that keep the code size of this function as small
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