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I'm defining an external function in the IR that has no uses at all. No calls, no address taken, nada. Such an unused declaration seems to be just dropped on the floor as not needed. Seems reasonable in most cases. However, one of my OpenVMS compilers (BLISS) has a language rule that expects such definitions to get into the ELF symbol table as a way to compel the linker to include certain

I had thought about "used", but not aware of the @llvm.used, et al. I wrote some test programs with __attribute__((used)) but that felt like something you'd put on function definitions to force code to be generated regardless. In the worst case, I'll do some metadata hack (I've ready had to do that for BLISS' GLOBAL BIND feature). Thanks for the response. I'll let