[LLVMdev] Combining LinkOnce and External

[Talin]

Chris Lattner wrote:
> On Jun 9, 2008, at 7:13 PM, Talin wrote:
>   
>> Before I go writing a bug report, I want to know if the behavior I am
>> seeing is intended.
>>
>> Before 1.3, I was able to generate a linkonce definition in one  
>> module,
>> and an external declaration in another module and link them together,
>> with the result being a defined symbol with external linkage. However,
>> with the latest head, it apparently discards the linkonce version, and
>> my output contains the declaration only, which fails when I try to
>> generate code.
>>
>> Is it legal to combine linkonce and external in this way?
>>     
>
> sounds like a serious bug.  Please file a bug report, I may have  
> recently broken this with a fix for another bug :(
>   
Actually, it turns out it was a mistake on my part - at least, when I 
tried to narrow it down to the smallest possible test case, I could no 
longer reproduce it. So, no bug...I think.
> -Chris
>
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