This allows the compiler/assembly programmer to switch back to a
section. This in turn fixes the bootstrap failure on powerpc (tested
on gcc110) without changing the ppc codegen at all.
I will try to cleanup the various getELFSection overloads in a followup patch.
Just using a default argument now would lead to ambiguities.
llvm-svn: 234099
This patch unifies the comdat and non-comdat code paths. By doing this
it add missing features to the comdat side and removes the fixed
section assumptions from the non-comdat side.
In ELF there is no one true section for "4 byte mergeable" constants.
We are better off computing the required properties of the section
and asking the context for it.
llvm-svn: 230411
Parts of llvm were not expecting it and we wouldn't print
the entity size of the section.
Given what comdats are used for, having SHF_MERGE sections would be
just a small improvement, so just disable it for now.
Fixes pr22463.
llvm-svn: 228196
Rafael Espindola