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
selectany only applies to externally visible global variables. It has
the effect of making the data weak_odr.
The MSDN docs suggest that unused definitions can only be dropped at
linktime, so Clang uses weak instead of linkonce. MSVC optimizes away
references to constant selectany data, so it must assume that there is
only one definition, hence weak_odr.
Reviewers: espindola
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D814
llvm-svn: 182266
The original r158700 caused crashes in the gcc test suite,
g++.abi/vtable3a.C among others. It also caused failures in the libc++
test suite.
llvm-svn: 158749
Rafael Espindola