[Patch][RFC] Verifying inputs to the Linker

[Davide Italiano via llvm-commits]

On Fri, Jun 24, 2016 at 5:29 AM, Rafael Espíndola
<llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> The attached patch is an attempt to fix pr28072.
>
> The point as Duncan pointed out is that the file is already partially
> linked by just reading it.
>
> Long term I think the solution is to make metadata owned by the module
> and then the linker will lazily read it and be in charge of all the
> linking. Running a verifier in each input will defeat the lazy
> loading, but will be legal.
>
> Right now we are at the unfortunate position that to support odr
> merging we cannot verify the inputs, which mildly annoying (see test
> update).
>

Meh, this is very annoying, but I don't see an alternative for now.
I'm fine with this, unfortunately :(

-- 
Davide

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