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

[Renato Golin via llvm-dev]

On 13 May 2016 at 13:56, Rafael Espíndola <rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
> No. Clang only produces the well known ones. Anything producing a
> appending linkage global that actually got written to the output would
> hit a link error if it tried combining any two of those files (and can
> get the same behaviour with an external linkage).

I wonder what was the motivation to add that piece of code, then. It
sounds to me that it was wrong to do that in the first place.

--renato