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+* CodeQL version 2.24.2 accidentially introduced a syntactical breaking change to `BarrierGuard<...>::getAnIndirectBarrierNode` and `InstructionBarrierGuard<...>::getAnIndirectBarrierNode`. These breaking changes have now been reverted so that the original code compiles again.
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