[PATCH] Alternative way of representing comdats

Rafael Ávila de Espíndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Thu Jun 26 16:44:51 PDT 2014


> Rafael Ávila de Espíndola wrote:
>> The sections or the comdat symbols btw? What does link.exe do?
> Sections, COFF doesn't know how big a symbol is.

OK, I must still be missing something. If the linker doesn't know how
big a symbol is, how is largest implemented? In the current
documentation we  have

* largest: largest COMDAT key, i.e., the symbol.
* samesize: The size of the section is the important one.

Cheers,
Rafael

http://reviews.llvm.org/D4178






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