[llvm-commits] [llvm-gcc-4.2] r46281 - in /llvm-gcc-4.2/trunk/gcc: config/darwin.h objc/objc-act.c

[Duncan Sands]

On Thursday 24 January 2008 08:45:28 Bill Wendling wrote:
> Hi Duncan,
> 
> >> GCC barfs this to the .s file directly:
> >>
> >>     .objc_class_name_CrashTestPlugin=0
> >>     .globl .objc_class_name_CrashTestPlugin
> >
> > it looks like you write this directly to a file
> > containing LLVM IR.  I guess this is OK as long
> > as no-one is using the global in the IR (otherwise
> > the verifier will barf).  Is that the case?
> >
> This is what I understand to be happening. The GCC version of this  
> doesn't even create a tree node for these, so it shouldn't be  
> generating a use of it. I'm taking that to imply that the GCC to LLVM  
> converter won't create a use of it.

Does this work whether writing LLVM assembler or
LLVM bitcode?

Ciao,

D.