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            <a href=https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/114111>114111</a>
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            macOS: Why are Objective-C sections marked with `no_dead_strip`?
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          madsmtm
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    Why are the sections used internally by Objective-C marked by Clang with `no_dead_strip`?

For example `__DATA,__objc_classrefs,regular,no_dead_strip` in [here](https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/blob/7836603062ea9bb519bb68187024a58bb7c2f31b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CGObjCMac.cpp#L7450).

It seems like that might prevent (like the name says) certain forms of dead stripping of Objective-C code? Though I couldn't find an example of this, in practice the linker seems to remove it anyhow?
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