[PATCH] D29104: Add !associated metadata.

[Evgeniy Stepanov via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

eugenis added a comment.

> I also don't think that adding metadata that are "correctness related" is a good thing in general.

Yeah. This could be a global flag. But we already have !type metadata which is correctness related.

OK. We can start with !associated that does not affect DCE. Its only effect would be setting SHF_ASSOCIATED on the ELF section. ASan would add all "metadata" globals to llvm.compiler.used.


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https://reviews.llvm.org/D29104