[cfe-dev] Re-using 'dllexport' for non-Windows targets

[Saleem Abdulrasool via cfe-dev]

Sorry for the top post, on a mobile device.

What exactly is broken with the attribute application?

Is the issue with using the __declspec spelling?  If so, -fdeclspec should
allow that to come through.  I believe that we treat the attribute the same
irrespective of the spelling.

On Monday, May 30, 2016, Martin J. O'Riordan via cfe-dev <
cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> For our SHAVE target I have re-used ‘__attribute__((dllexport))’ to allow
> me to create indirect address tables for symbols with this annotation.
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> However, with almost every release of LLVM and CLang my implementation is
> broken and I have to rework my implementation.  For the most part, the
> existing ‘dllexport’ attribute does everything I require and makes more
> sense for me to pass it through CLang/LLVM until it reaches our back-end
> where it emits the IAT support rather than adding my own new attribute.
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> This got broken again with v3.8 and this time the controls are more strict
> on Windows supporting targets.  I thought that before I go in an make
> another set of changes to re-enable this with our target, that I would ask
> first if there anybody has any advice or recommendation for how to “borrow”
> this attribute for non-Windows targets?  The problem is principally CLang
> rather than LLVM, so I would like to find a good and future-proof way of
> adapting CLang to enable this attribute on my target.
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> Thanks in advance,
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Saleem Abdulrasool
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