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<p>Deleting an instruction from an existing sequence of instructions that form a
-<a href="#BasicBlock"><tt>BasicBlock</tt></a> is very straight-forward. First,
-you must have a pointer to the instruction that you wish to delete. Second, you
-need to obtain the pointer to that instruction's basic block. You use the
-pointer to the basic block to get its list of instructions and then use the
-erase function to remove your instruction. For example:</p>
+<a href="#BasicBlock"><tt>BasicBlock</tt></a> is very straight-forward: just
+call the instruction's eraseFromParent() method. For example:</p>
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+<p>This unlinks the instruction from its containing basic block and deletes
+it. If you'd just like to unlink the instruction from its containing basic
+block but not delete it, you can use the <tt>removeFromParent()</tt> method.</p>
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