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2014 Jun 05
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[LLVMdev] [rfc] "alias weak" X "weak alias"
moving to llvmdev.
It always amused me that we have
@a = weak global ...
but
@b = alias weak ...
I decided to dig why that is. The best I could find was
http://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=1017#c15
Looking at some really old cold then suggests that the reason was that
the old bison based parser hard a reduction for alias linkages and
another one for global variable linkages. Putting the