[LLVMdev] merging globals

[danchr at gmail.com]

On 17/10/2008, Chris Lattner <clattner at apple.com> wrote:
> Please no flag.  If we want to fix this problem, lets do it right.  To
> me this consists of some flag on GlobalVariable that says that it is
> 'mergable' or something like that.

Wouldn't it be slightly cleaner to mark the distinct objects in the
LLVM intermediate representation? This would make the default case the
one resulting in best code, and seems to me to follow the principle of
structural equivalence of types (and values) used elsewhere.

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