[PATCH] D36712: Emit section information for extern variables

[Elizabeth Andrews via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

eandrews updated this revision to Diff 111341.
eandrews added a comment.

Corrected spelling error.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D36712

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 Additionally, the global can placed in a comdat if the target has the necessary
 support.
 
+External declarations may have an explicit section specified. Section 
+information is retained in LLVM IR for targets that make use of this 
+information. Attaching section information to an external declaration is an 
+assertion that its definition is located in the specified section. If the 
+definition is located in a different section, the behavior is undefined.   
+
 By default, global initializers are optimized by assuming that global
 variables defined within the module are not modified from their
 initial values before the start of the global initializer. This is


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