[PATCH] D33852: Enable __declspec(selectany) on linux

[Piotr Padlewski via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

Prazek added inline comments.


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Comment at: include/clang/Basic/Attr.td:2421
 
-def SelectAny : InheritableAttr, TargetSpecificAttr<TargetWindows> {
+def SelectAny : InheritableAttr, TargetSpecificAttr<TargetWindowsAndLinux> {
   let Spellings = [Declspec<"selectany">, GCC<"selectany">];
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rnk wrote:
> davide wrote:
> > Prazek wrote:
> > > majnemer wrote:
> > > > selectany should work on targets other than "x86", "x86_64", "arm", "thumb", etc. I think it is only necessary to require that it be a COFF or ELF target.
> > > Should we allow other OSes than Win32 and Linux?
> > I guess everything ELF should be allowed.
> Why not use weak_odr / linkonce_odr on MachO? Microsoft builds Office for Mac and I suspect they use `__declspec(selectany)`.
I think this is what would happen right now. The question is - should we warn about using declspec on macho? Beause not using comdat looks like "not supporting" it, but I am not sure about it.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D33852