[PATCH] D20217: Add direct control of whether or not a symbol is preemtable at runtime

[Sean Fertile via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

sfertile added a comment.

@rafael Hi Rafael, I'm interested in picking this work up. I have rebased your patch to top of trunk and made the changes suggested in the review comments (absolute flag, prepend 'dso_' to the new keywords). I have a question though,

In https://reviews.llvm.org/D20217#430433, @mehdi_amini wrote:

> Can you confirm that this attribute would apply to declaration as well? So that we would generate direct accesses and not go through the GOT/PLT? Even for symbol defined in different module from their uses?


Is this the intention? This is my motivation for picking this up.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D20217