[patch] Change the .ll syntax for comdats and add a syntactic sugar

[Rafael Espíndola]

On 5 January 2015 at 18:39, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> I haven't been following the discussion that led to seeking a more compact
> syntax, but personally I think that adding sugar to the .ll syntax is not a
> good idea. The reason is that I generally find it more difficult to remember
> how to expand various infrequently-used/encountered sugars while reading
> than to wade through verbosity while reading.

It started with a patch to clang to make all comdats explicit. The
concern for making the syntax a bit more compact was that it would be
very common to have a comdat that is used only in one global. C++
inline functions will be one such case.

Cheers,
Rafael