[LLVMdev] Linking two external linkage GlobalValues

[Chris Lattner]

On Fri, 25 May 2007, Anton Korobeynikov wrote:
>> My question: does this change break certain design decisions,
>> optimisations, ...?
> This is bug in the source code. You have two symbols with the same name
> in the different object files, which is definite redefinition. At least
> one of them should be declared with "extern".

Shouldn't these symbols get "common" linkage, aka llvm weak linkage?

Are you building the source with -fno-common?  If not, it could be an llvm 
bug.

-Chris

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