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> I think it emits valid output, but I don't think it handles weak symbols > correctly, as COFF supports true weak symbols, but this code appears to turn > them into a linkonce section which is not quite the same thing. Yes. This was intentional, since: 1. At the time of writing the code binutils did not support weak stuff 2. It was my feeling, that weak (especially external weak

...ol may be defined as weak, and the overriding symbol if present would be define normally. Perhaps this is the difference in detail you speak of. -Nathan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/attachments/20100511/f50cbd14/attachment.html>

On Mon, May 10, 2010 at 9:43 PM, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote: > > On May 10, 2010, at 6:46 PM, Nathan Jeffords wrote: > > > I have been looking over AsmPrinter::EmitLinkage (around line 195 of > lib\CodeGen\AsmPrinter\AsmPrinter.cpp) and it seems that its implementation > will vary quite a bit depending on what object file format is in use (MachO, >