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[Bill Wendling]

On Jul 19, 2009, at 6:03 PM, Bill Wendling wrote:

> Author: void
> Date: Sun Jul 19 20:03:30 2009
> New Revision: 76385
>
> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=76385&view=rev
> Log:
> Add plumbing for the `linker_private' linkage type. This type is  
> meant for
> "private" symbols which the assember shouldn't strip, but which the  
> linker may
> remove after evaluation. This is mostly useful for Objective-C  
> metadata.
>
> This is plumbing, so we don't have a use of it yet. More to come, etc.
>
For those interested, this will lead to getting rid of the annoying  
\01 prefix that we place in front of all Objective-C symbols.

-bw