[PATCH] D104933: [LangRef] Clarify !associated

Evgenii Stepanov via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jul 2 14:45:04 PDT 2021


eugenis added inline comments.


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Comment at: llvm/docs/LangRef.rst:6842
+to more references to the metadata. If the metadata is retained while
+the function is discarded, this will trigger a linker error.
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It sounds like the linker error is only a symptom, and the real reason is that !associated as well as SHF_LINK_ORDER can not express many-to-one relationship, right? Because ideally we would want to keep metadata alive as long as any inline location is alive, too.


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