[llvm-commits] [llvm] r76385 - in /llvm/trunk: docs/ include/llvm-c/ include/llvm/ include/llvm/Support/ lib/AsmParser/ lib/Bitcode/Reader/ lib/Bitcode/Writer/ lib/CodeGen/ lib/Linker/ lib/Target/ lib/Target/ARM/AsmPrinter/ lib/Target/Alpha/AsmPr

[Bill Wendling]

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:42 AM, Eli Friedman<eli.friedman at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:19 AM, Duncan Sands<baldrick at free.fr> wrote:
>> Hi Chris,
>>
>>> Right.  Private linkage is discarded by the assembler, so they never
>>> make it into the .o file.  linker_private is discarded by the linker,
>>> so it never makes it into the .exe/.dylib.  I don't think there is a
>>> corresponding idea on ELF, so on ELF they two linkage types should be
>>> codegen'd the same way.
>>
>> I don't understand why you would want something to be discarded by
>> the assembler/linker and not by the linker/assembler.  Don't you
>> want them both to throw pointless things away?
>
> I've stopped questioning anything that has to do with Apple's
> linker... it has all sorts of strange quirks.
>
I have too. :-)

-bw