[llvm-dev] [RFC] Fail early on unimplementable append linkage uses

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 13 May 2016 at 13:43, Rafael Espíndola <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> That means that appending linkage can only be used with llvm special
> symbols that never hit a real .o.

So they should have been resolved by emission time, or it's a back-end error.

Do you have an idea of what could be affected if we start emitting an
error, here? Test-Suite, other programs?

cheers,
--renato