[PATCH] D10837: Make global aliases have symbol size equal to their type

Rafael EspĂ­ndola rafael.espindola at gmail.com
Tue Jul 14 10:49:49 PDT 2015


> I don't know much about aliases - they can be differently typed than the thing they alias?

Yes.

> Not sure what that means or what their size means either...

Pretty much whatever the "user" wants it to mean. In this case the
only real user we have is the concatenation of global variables, so
the desire is for the size to represent the original size.

Cheers,
Rafael



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