[llvm-commits] [PATCH] Work around an Apple linker bug

[Charles Davis]

While compiling Wine with clang, I discovered a bug in the Apple linker.

When LLVM encounters what it believes to be a UTF-16 string, it places
it in the (__TEXT, __ustring) section. Unfortunately, if a global symbol
is placed there, the linker does not see it and loses the symbol. I have
filed <rdar://problem/7672401> to keep track of this.

This patch disables generation of the (__TEXT, __ustring) section.
UTF-16 string constants will be placed in the (__TEXT, __const) section
instead (as GCC does). This is a temporary workaround until Apple fixes
the linker bug.

Chip
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