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Rafael Espindola 24a669d225 Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases.
This adds back r204781.

Original message:

Aliases are just another name for a position in a file. As such, the
regular symbol resolutions are not applied. For example, given

define void @my_func() {
  ret void
}
@my_alias = alias weak void ()* @my_func
@my_alias2 = alias void ()* @my_alias

We produce without this patch:

        .weak   my_alias
my_alias = my_func
        .globl  my_alias2
my_alias2 = my_alias

That is, in the resulting ELF file my_alias, my_func and my_alias are
just 3 names pointing to offset 0 of .text. That is *not* the
semantics of IR linking. For example, linking in a

@my_alias = alias void ()* @other_func

would require the strong my_alias to override the weak one and
my_alias2 would end up pointing to other_func.

There is no way to represent that with aliases being just another
name, so the best solution seems to be to just disallow it, converting
a miscompile into an error.

llvm-svn: 204934
2014-03-27 15:26:56 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 65481d7b97 Revert "Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases."
This reverts commit r204781.

I will follow up to with msan folks to see what is what they
were trying to do with aliases to weak aliases.

llvm-svn: 204784
2014-03-26 06:14:40 +00:00
Rafael Espindola 3b712a84a9 Prevent alias from pointing to weak aliases.
Aliases are just another name for a position in a file. As such, the
regular symbol resolutions are not applied. For example, given

define void @my_func() {
  ret void
}
@my_alias = alias weak void ()* @my_func
@my_alias2 = alias void ()* @my_alias

We produce without this patch:

        .weak   my_alias
my_alias = my_func
        .globl  my_alias2
my_alias2 = my_alias

That is, in the resulting ELF file my_alias, my_func and my_alias are
just 3 names pointing to offset 0 of .text. That is *not* the
semantics of IR linking. For example, linking in a

@my_alias = alias void ()* @other_func

would require the strong my_alias to override the weak one and
my_alias2 would end up pointing to other_func.

There is no way to represent that with aliases being just another
name, so the best solution seems to be to just disallow it, converting
a miscompile into an error.

llvm-svn: 204781
2014-03-26 04:48:47 +00:00
Nico Rieck c60647f0db Handle dllexport for global aliases
llvm-svn: 199219
2014-01-14 15:23:25 +00:00
Nico Rieck 7157bb765e Decouple dllexport/dllimport from linkage
Representing dllexport/dllimport as distinct linkage types prevents using
these attributes on templates and inline functions.

Instead of introducing further mixed linkage types to include linkonce and
weak ODR, the old import/export linkage types are replaced with a new
separate visibility-like specifier:

  define available_externally dllimport void @f() {}
  @Var = dllexport global i32 1, align 4

Linkage for dllexported globals and functions is now equal to their linkage
without dllexport. Imported globals and functions must be either
declarations with external linkage, or definitions with
AvailableExternallyLinkage.

llvm-svn: 199218
2014-01-14 15:22:47 +00:00
Nico Rieck 9d2e0df049 Revert "Decouple dllexport/dllimport from linkage"
Revert this for now until I fix an issue in Clang with it.

This reverts commit r199204.

llvm-svn: 199207
2014-01-14 12:38:32 +00:00
Nico Rieck 1794b62f54 Revert "Handle dllexport for global aliases"
This reverts commit r199205.

llvm-svn: 199206
2014-01-14 12:36:54 +00:00
Nico Rieck 4192acdbc3 Handle dllexport for global aliases
llvm-svn: 199205
2014-01-14 11:55:40 +00:00
Nico Rieck e43aaf7967 Decouple dllexport/dllimport from linkage
Representing dllexport/dllimport as distinct linkage types prevents using
these attributes on templates and inline functions.

Instead of introducing further mixed linkage types to include linkonce and
weak ODR, the old import/export linkage types are replaced with a new
separate visibility-like specifier:

  define available_externally dllimport void @f() {}
  @Var = dllexport global i32 1, align 4

Linkage for dllexported globals and functions is now equal to their linkage
without dllexport. Imported globals and functions must be either
declarations with external linkage, or definitions with
AvailableExternallyLinkage.

llvm-svn: 199204
2014-01-14 11:55:03 +00:00