[llvm-dev] How to force an unused function declaration in clang

[Soham Sinha via llvm-dev]

clang doesn't seem to respect __attribute__((used)) in C functions. Even if
I declare a function like the following:   __attribute__((used)) void
function(), then also it doesn't declare the function in its IR file if I
don't use the function. Is there any other way to force the declaration of
"unused" function declarations with clang.

I have hacked in clang 6.0.0 in tools/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
file. I changed in EmitGlobal function to detect if the function has "used"
attribute and then if it has then use "GetOrCreateLLVMFunction" this to
create the function declaration. However, this hack fails in some other
cases. Therefore I am looking for a proper way to do this.

Regards,
Soham Sinha
PhD Student, Department of Computer Science
Boston University
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