[LLVMdev] x86 Intel Syntax and MASM 9.x

[Anton Korobeynikov]

Hi, Eli

> Huh.  For correctness, I guess you'll have to round up the alignment,
> and abort on anything higher than 256.  (Also, perhaps the front-end
> should avoid generating such constructs in the first place when
> targeting Windows, but that's a separate issue.)
It depends on frontend :) I don't see why, for example, llvm-gcc for
mingw32 should not generate such globals. Everything is perfect with
gas. Also, for example, masm does not support weak symbols which is a
requirement for more or less non-trivial C++ code

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With best regards, Anton Korobeynikov
Faculty of Mathematics and Mechanics, Saint Petersburg State University