They are as much trouble as aliases to declarations. They are requiring
the code generator to define a symbol with the same value as another
symbol, but the second symbol is undefined.
If representing this is important for some optimization, we could add
support for available_externally aliases. They would be *required* to
point to a declaration (or available_externally definition).
llvm-svn: 254170
This reverts commit r251837, due to a number of bot failures of the form:
/home/grosser/buildslave/perf-x86_64-penryn-O3-polly-fast/llvm.obj/tools/llvm-link/Release+Asserts/llvm-link.o:llvm-link.cpp:function
loadIndex(llvm::LLVMContext&, llvm::Module const*): error: undefined
reference to
'llvm::object::FunctionIndexObjectFile::create(llvm::MemoryBufferRef,
llvm::LLVMContext&, llvm::Module const*, bool)'
/home/grosser/buildslave/perf-x86_64-penryn-O3-polly-fast/llvm.obj/tools/llvm-link/Release+Asserts/llvm-link.o:llvm-link.cpp:function
loadIndex(llvm::LLVMContext&, llvm::Module const*): error: undefined
reference to 'llvm::object::FunctionIndexObjectFile::takeIndex()'
I'm not sure why these are happening - I added Object to the requred
libraries in tools/llvm-link/LLVMBuild.txt and the LLVM_LINK_COMPONENTS
in tools/llvm-link/CMakeLists.txt. Confirmed for my build that these
symbols come out of libLLVMObject.a. What am I missing?
llvm-svn: 251841
Summary:
Support for necessary linkage changes and symbol renaming during
ThinLTO function importing.
Also includes llvm-link support for manually importing functions
and associated llvm-link based tests.
Note that this does not include support for intelligently importing
metadata, which is currently imported duplicate times. That support will
be in the follow-on patch, and currently is ignored by the tests.
Reviewers: dexonsmith, joker.eph, davidxl
Subscribers: tobiasvk, tejohnson, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13515
llvm-svn: 251837
This change includes a fix for https://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=499508#c3,
which required updating the visibility for symbols with eliminated definitions.
--Original Commit Message--
Add new EliminateAvailableExternally module pass, which is performed in
O2 compiles just before GlobalDCE, unless we are preparing for LTO.
This pass eliminates available externally globals (turning them into
declarations), regardless of whether they are dead/unreferenced, since
we are guaranteed to have a copy available elsewhere at link time.
This enables additional opportunities for GlobalDCE.
If we are preparing for LTO (e.g. a -flto -c compile), the pass is not
included as we want to preserve available externally functions for possible
link time inlining. The FE indicates whether we are doing an -flto compile
via the new PrepareForLTO flag on the PassManagerBuilder.
llvm-svn: 241466
O2 compiles just before GlobalDCE, unless we are preparing for LTO.
This pass eliminates available externally globals (turning them into
declarations), regardless of whether they are dead/unreferenced, since
we are guaranteed to have a copy available elsewhere at link time.
This enables additional opportunities for GlobalDCE.
If we are preparing for LTO (e.g. a -flto -c compile), the pass is not
included as we want to preserve available externally functions for possible
link time inlining. The FE indicates whether we are doing an -flto compile
via the new PrepareForLTO flag on the PassManagerBuilder.
llvm-svn: 239480
Rafael Espindola