[PATCH] D39627: Fix vtable not receiving hidden visibility when using push(visibility)
John McCall via Phabricator via cfe-commits
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Mon Nov 6 18:32:59 PST 2017
rjmccall added a comment.
In https://reviews.llvm.org/D39627#917175, @efriedma wrote:
> Adding cfe-commits. (In the future, please make sure to CC that list instead of llvm-commits for clang changes.)
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> > I'm missing some background lingo here. What is the meaning of "a declaration" and "a definition" here?
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> In most cases, we only emit the vtable for a class in one object file. Informally, we can call that the "definition" of the vtable, as an analogy to variables and functions. See also http://itanium-cxx-abi.github.io/cxx-abi/abi.html#vague-vtable .
LLVM also distinguishes between a declaration (a Function or GlobalVariable which is presumed to be defined in a different Module) vs. a definition.
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