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          <th>Bug ID</th>
          <td><a class="bz_bug_link 
          bz_status_NEW "
   title="NEW --- - Clang forms weak external COFF aliases to base class destructors which fail to link"
   href="https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25477">25477</a>
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        <tr>
          <th>Summary</th>
          <td>Clang forms weak external COFF aliases to base class destructors which fail to link
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        <tr>
          <th>Product</th>
          <td>clang
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Version</th>
          <td>unspecified
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Hardware</th>
          <td>PC
          </td>
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          <th>OS</th>
          <td>Windows NT
          </td>
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        <tr>
          <th>Status</th>
          <td>NEW
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Severity</th>
          <td>normal
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>Priority</th>
          <td>P
          </td>
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          <th>Component</th>
          <td>LLVM Codegen
          </td>
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          <th>Assignee</th>
          <td>unassignedclangbugs@nondot.org
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          <th>Reporter</th>
          <td>rnk@google.com
          </td>
        </tr>

        <tr>
          <th>CC</th>
          <td>david.majnemer@gmail.com, llvm-bugs@lists.llvm.org, rafael.espindola@gmail.com
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          <th>Classification</th>
          <td>Unclassified
          </td>
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        <pre>Consider:

$ cat t.cpp
struct A {
  virtual ~A();
};
template <typename T> struct B : A {
  virtual ~B() {}
};
#ifdef CONFIG1
A::~A() {}
template struct B<int>;
#else
extern template struct B<int>;
int main() { B<int> b; }
#endif

$ clang-cl -O1 t.cpp -DCONFIG1 -c -Fot1.obj

$ clang-cl t.cpp -Fot2.obj -c

$ link t1.obj t2.obj -out:t.exe
Microsoft (R) Incremental Linker Version 12.00.31101.0
Copyright (C) Microsoft Corporation.  All rights reserved.

t1.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual __cdecl
B<int>::~B<int>(void)" (??1?$B@H@@UEAA@XZ)
t2.obj : error LNK2001: unresolved external symbol "public: virtual __cdecl
B<int>::~B<int>(void)" (??1?$B@H@@UEAA@XZ)
t.exe : fatal error LNK1120: 1 unresolved externals

So, the Microsoft linker does not appear to work the way we think it does with
regard to weak externals. I reduced this from STLPort, which uses extern
template instantiations like these for basic_ios.

I guess I'll change this stuff that looks for dllexport to look for COFF
instead:
  // Don't create a weak alias for a dllexport'd symbol.
  if (AliasDecl.getDecl()->hasAttr<DLLExportAttr>() &&
      llvm::GlobalValue::isWeakForLinker(Linkage))
    return true;</pre>
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