For a definition (of most linkage types), dso_local is set for ELF -fno-pic/-fpie
and COFF, but not for Mach-O. This nuance causes unneeded binary format differences.
This patch replaces (function) `define ` with `define{{.*}} `,
(variable/constant/alias) `= ` with `={{.*}} `, or inserts appropriate `{{.*}} `
if there is an explicit linkage.
* Clang will set dso_local for Mach-O, which is currently implied by TargetMachine.cpp. This will make COFF/Mach-O and executable ELF similar.
* Eventually I hope we can make dso_local the textual LLVM IR default (write explicit "dso_preemptable" when applicable) and -fpic ELF will be similar to everything else. This patch helps move toward that goal.
These are all emitted into a section with a cstring_literal attribute. The
attribute permits the linker to coalesce the string contents. The address of
the strings are not important.
llvm-svn: 281855
These strings are constants, mark them as such. This doesn't matter too much in
practice on MachO since the constants are placed into a special section and not
referred to directly.
llvm-svn: 281854
While the rest of the Objective-C metadata seems to honor
objc_runtime_name, the encoding strings produced by, e.g., @encode and
property meta, were not. Fixes rdar://problem/21408305.
llvm-svn: 239852
to be applied to class or protocols. This will direct IRGen
for Objective-C metadata to use the new name in various places
where class and protocol names are needed.
rdar:// 17631257
llvm-svn: 213167
Fangrui Song