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AI-generatedLLVM bitcode cache reuse across toolchain version boundaries
LLVM emits bitcode as an intermediate representation that can be written and read by the compiler infrastructure, but the project does not guarantee forward or backward compatibility between releases. A file produced by one version may be rejected by an older reader, while a newer reader may parse older bitcode with warnings or loss of version-specific detai