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On 13 May 2016 at 08:51, Renato Golin <renato.golin at linaro.org> wrote: > On 13 May 2016 at 13:43, Rafael Espíndola <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote: >> That means that appending linkage can only be used with llvm special >> symbols that never hit a real .o. > > So they should have been resolved by emission time, or it's a back-end error. Not resolved,

Append linkage is magical. It doesn't correspond to anything available in real object files (ELF/COFF/MachO). In those files sections are appended, but symbols are just resolved. That means that appending linkage can only be used with llvm special symbols that never hit a real .o. Long term I think we should delete it an replace with explicit use of section. But for now I would like to just

...n this? i just opened a bug report about this here, if anyone wants to contribute proposed patches/protocol suggestions: https://bugzilla.mindrot.org/show_bug.cgi?id=agent-context I'm happy to have a bigger-picture discussion here on the list, though. Is this a bad idea? a nice idea but unimplementable for some reason? is this already possible somehow? Regards, --dkg -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: signature.asc Type: application/pgp-signature Size: 1030 bytes Desc: OpenPGP digital signature URL: <http://lists.mindrot.org/pipermail/openss...

Thanks for your thoughts, Chris. > As supporting evidence of this, I was discussing this thread yesterday around the office yesterday and had quite a few people responding something along the lines of “they’re proposing what?”. I hope they'll join us in this thread. Ultimately a survey is going to be strongly biased in favor of "don't change anything". There is a strong