[llvm] r254917 - Link declaration lazily.

[Sean Silva via llvm-commits]

On Tue, Dec 8, 2015 at 2:43 PM, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com
> wrote:

> On 8 December 2015 at 17:40, Sean Silva <chisophugis at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Can you explain why there were so many test changes needed?
> >
>
> Historical laziness I guess. Since declarations were linked eagerly,
> it meant that when I added test for type linking (for exmaple) I could
> use
>
> declare %interesting_type...
>
> instead of the slightly longer
>
> define %interesting_type...
>
> which is now required to cause the link.
>

Ah, thanks!

-- Sean Silva


>
> Cheers,
> Rafael
>
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