[llvm] r242520 - Make global aliases have symbol size equal to their type

[Hans Wennborg via llvm-commits]

This revision was committed after the branch point (which was
r242221), so 3.7 should be good AFAIK.

On Thu, Aug 6, 2015 at 12:23 PM, Rafael Espíndola
<rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> This caused pr24379.
>
> I think we should revert it form trunk and 3.7 for now.
>
> On 17 July 2015 at 08:12, John Brawn <john.brawn at arm.com> wrote:
>> Author: john.brawn
>> Date: Fri Jul 17 07:12:03 2015
>> New Revision: 242520
>>
>> URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=242520&view=rev
>> Log:
>> Make global aliases have symbol size equal to their type
>>
>> This is mainly for the benefit of GlobalMerge, so that an alias into a
>> MergedGlobals variable has the same size as the original non-merged
>> variable.
>>
>> Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10837