[PATCH] D29104: Add !associated metadata.

[Evgeniy Stepanov via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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When placed on a global variable, !associated tells the optimizer
(DCE in particular) to treat all global references in that variable's
initializer as reverse dependencies.


Repository:
  rL LLVM

https://reviews.llvm.org/D29104

Files:
  docs/LangRef.rst
  include/llvm/IR/LLVMContext.h
  include/llvm/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.h
  lib/CodeGen/TargetLoweringObjectFileImpl.cpp
  lib/IR/LLVMContext.cpp
  lib/Transforms/IPO/GlobalDCE.cpp
  test/ThinLTO/X86/lazyload_metadata.ll
  test/Transforms/GlobalDCE/associated.ll

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