[llvm-commits] Function aliases

[Dan Gohman]

> GCC doesn't allow variable aliases and I don't know
> how they should look (and work!). That's why I'm focusing on function
> aliases only.

Actually, GCC does accept variable aliases, at least on i686-pc-linux-gnu
and several other targets.

This code compiles and has two symbols in the output:

int x = 2;
extern int y __attribute__((alias("x")));

Dan

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Dan Gohman, Cray Inc.