[llvm] r279417 - [LTO] Handles commons in monolithic LTO

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

On 31 August 2016 at 10:10, Teresa Johnson <tejohnson at google.com> wrote:
> Thanks, Rafael. Right, this is essentially what gold-plugin was doing
> before the new API. I will take a look at whether we can put something
> back to avoid the RAUW (might not be until next week though). Is the
> deficiency in the gold-plugin API or in gold's resolution? Do you know
> why gold isn't already selecting the largest as prevailing?

Where the bug/limitation is is probably a question of nomenclature.
The API gives no guarantees and gold just selects the first one.

Cheers,
Rafael