Summary:
For builds with LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON and BUILD_SHARED_LIBS=OFF
this change makes all symbols in the target specific libraries hidden
by default.
A new macro called LLVM_EXTERNAL_VISIBILITY has been added to mark symbols in these
libraries public, which is mainly needed for the definitions of the
LLVMInitialize* functions.
This patch reduces the number of public symbols in libLLVM.so by about
25%. This should improve load times for the dynamic library and also
make abi checker tools, like abidiff require less memory when analyzing
libLLVM.so
One side-effect of this change is that for builds with
LLVM_BUILD_LLVM_DYLIB=ON and LLVM_LINK_LLVM_DYLIB=ON some unittests that
access symbols that are no longer public will need to be statically linked.
Before and after public symbol counts (using gcc 8.2.1, ld.bfd 2.31.1):
nm before/libLLVM-9svn.so | grep ' [A-Zuvw] ' | wc -l
36221
nm after/libLLVM-9svn.so | grep ' [A-Zuvw] ' | wc -l
26278
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Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54439
Test writing and reading benchmark instructions to and from disc, and
check calculations of min, max and avg values from a list of benchmark
measures.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71265
The target does just enough to be able to run llvm-exegesis in latency
mode for at least some opcodes.
Patch by Miloš Stojanović.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D68649
llvm-svn: 374590
Miloš Stojanović