The llvm IR until recently had no support for comdats. This was a problem when
targeting C++ on ELF/COFF as just using weak linkage would cause quite a bit of
dead bits to remain on the executable (unless -ffunction-sections,
-fdata-sections and --gc-sections were used).
To fix the problem, llvm's codegen will just assume that any weak or linkonce
that is not in an explicit comdat should be output in one with the same name as
the global.
This unfortunately breaks cases like pr19848 where a weak symbol is not
xpected to be part of any comdat.
Now that we have explicit comdats in the IR, we can finally get both cases
right.
This first patch just makes clang give explicit comdats to GlobalValues where
t is allowed to.
A followup patch to llvm will then stop implicitly producing comdats.
llvm-svn: 225705
This makes us emit dllexported in-class initialized static data members (which
are treated as definitions in MSVC), even when they're not referenced.
It also makes their special linkage reflected in the GVA linkage instead of
getting massaged in CodeGen.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4563
llvm-svn: 213304
Rafael Espindola