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authorBill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com>2010-06-29 21:24:00 +0000
committerBill Wendling <isanbard@gmail.com>2010-06-29 21:24:00 +0000
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Introducing the "linker_weak" linkage type. This will be used for Objective-C
metadata types which should be marked as "weak", but which the linker will remove upon final linkage. For example, the "objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc" symbol is defined like this: .globl l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc .weak_definition l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc .section __DATA, __objc_msgrefs, coalesced .align 3 l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc: .quad _objc_msgSend_fixup .quad L_OBJC_METH_VAR_NAME_1 This is different from the "linker_private" linkage type, because it can't have the metadata defined with ".weak_definition". git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@107205 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
Diffstat (limited to 'lib/VMCore')
-rw-r--r--lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp1
-rw-r--r--lib/VMCore/Core.cpp5
2 files changed, 6 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp b/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
index 057ad91..8b6aabb 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ static void PrintLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkageTypes LT,
case GlobalValue::ExternalLinkage: break;
case GlobalValue::PrivateLinkage: Out << "private "; break;
case GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage: Out << "linker_private "; break;
+ case GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage: Out << "linker_weak "; break;
case GlobalValue::InternalLinkage: Out << "internal "; break;
case GlobalValue::LinkOnceAnyLinkage: Out << "linkonce "; break;
case GlobalValue::LinkOnceODRLinkage: Out << "linkonce_odr "; break;
diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
index 295d148..faf62ad 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
@@ -1058,6 +1058,8 @@ LLVMLinkage LLVMGetLinkage(LLVMValueRef Global) {
return LLVMPrivateLinkage;
case GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage:
return LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage;
+ case GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage:
+ return LLVMLinkerWeakLinkage;
case GlobalValue::DLLImportLinkage:
return LLVMDLLImportLinkage;
case GlobalValue::DLLExportLinkage:
@@ -1108,6 +1110,9 @@ void LLVMSetLinkage(LLVMValueRef Global, LLVMLinkage Linkage) {
case LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage:
GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage);
break;
+ case LLVMLinkerWeakLinkage:
+ GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage);
+ break;
case LLVMDLLImportLinkage:
GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::DLLImportLinkage);
break;