The gold behaviour with regard to --keep-unique is arguably a bug.
I also noticed a bug in my patch, which is that we mislink the
following program with --icf=safe by merging f3 and f4:
void f1() {}
void f2() {}
__attribute__((weak)) void* f3() { return f1; }
__attribute__((weak)) void* f4() { return f2; }
int main() {
printf("%p %p\n", f3(), f4());
}
llvm-svn: 337729
The only restriction is that we cannot merge more than one KeepUnique
section together. This matches gold's behaviour and reduces code size
when using --icf=safe.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49622
llvm-svn: 337638
The --keep-unique <symbol> option is taken from gold. The intention is that
<symbol> will be prevented from being folded by ICF. Although not
specifically mentioned in the documentation <symbol> only matches
global symbols, with a warning if the symbol is not found.
The implementation finds the Section defining <symbol> and removes it from
the set of sections considered for ICF.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46755
llvm-svn: 332332