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[Chris Lattner]

On Jul 20, 2009, at 2:48 PM, Dan Gohman wrote:

>
> On Jul 19, 2009, at 10:19 PM, Chris Lattner wrote:
>>
>> 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.
>
> How is linker_private different from ELF's hidden visibility?

They are orthogonal concepts.

-Chris