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...t symbols through aliases. This is done in two situations, 1. As place-holders for external symbols. As the code generator does not know the type of these symbols until the point of usage (nor does it need to), i8* aliases are defined at the end of the compilation unit, @newCAF = external global i8 @newCAF$alias = alias private i8* @newCAF and functions in the current compilation unit calling `newCAF` invoke it through `@newCAF$alias$`, ... %lnYi = bitcast i8* @newCAF$alias to i8* (i8*, i8*)* ... 2. As place-holders for l...

...> As it turns out this wasn't quite right; there are some cases that we don't know the type of the reference even at the point of usage (namely when we refer to the function's entrypoint label without calling it as only C--'s call node contains the signature). >> @newCAF = external global i8 >> @newCAF$alias = alias private i8* @newCAF >> >> and functions in the current compilation unit calling `newCAF` invoke >> it through `@newCAF$alias$`, >> >> ... >> %lnYi = bitcast i8* @newCAF$alias...