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Hi, I'm trying to understand better how linker_private (and friends) work. From what I can understand from the manual (http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#linkage_linker_private), it seems that a linker_private function cannot be removed by the optimizers. Only the linker can discard the symbol. However, I tested with 'opt -O1' and a function with *no users* is removed. Same thing happens with the other linker_private_* linkage types. Is my reading of t...