[PATCH] D34512: Add preliminary Cross Translation Unit support library

[Ben Langmuir via Phabricator via cfe-commits]

benlangmuir added a comment.

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512#856301, @xazax.hun wrote:

> In https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512#856184, @dcoughlin wrote:
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> > In either case, the important scenario I think we should support is choosing at a call site to a C function the most likely definition of the called function, based on number and type of parameters, from multiple possible definitions in other translation units. If the API is rich enough to support this then I think that is a good indication it will be useful for other scenarios as well.
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> Note that the lookup is already based on USR which is similar to mangled names in a sense that it contains information about the function parameters. So the only way to get multiple candidates from the lookup is having multiple function definitions with the same signature.


I just want to clarify that C function USRs do not contain type information, although C++ USRs do.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D34512