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Update and improve `rustc_codegen_{llvm,ssa}` docs
Fixes #75342.
These docs were very out of date and misleading. They even said that
they codegen'd the *AST*!
For some reason, the `rustc_codegen_ssa::base` docs were exactly
identical to the `rustc_codegen_llvm::base` docs. They didn't really
make sense, because they had LLVM-specific information even though
`rustc_codegen_ssa` is supposed to be somewhat generic. So I removed
them as they were misleading.
r? ``@pnkfelix`` maybe?
The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.