[llvm-commits] [llvm] r56341 - in /llvm/trunk: include/llvm/ include/llvm/Transforms/ lib/Transforms/IPO/ test/Analysis/GlobalsModRef/ test/Transforms/AddReadAttrs/

Anton Korobeynikov anton at korobeynikov.info
Sun Sep 21 07:56:13 PDT 2008


Hi, Nick

> I once asked what "isWeakForLinker" actually meant but didn't get a
> response.
Sorry, maybe I didn't saw this e-mail. Actually, it was introduced,
because in most places we checked for all 3 kinds of 'non-strong'
linkage at once. And I thought, that having one helper will be better.

Name was selected, because linker actually treats all such symbols as weak.

-- 
With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University



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