[PATCH] D104933: [LangRef] Clarify !associated

[Fangrui Song via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

MaskRay 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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eugenis wrote:
> 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.
> the real reason is that !associated as well as SHF_LINK_ORDER can not express many-to-one relationship, right?

Exactly. Shall I rephrase this to make it clearer? (Do you a particular suggestion?)


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