[llvm-dev] Why hasExternalLinkage() is not true for an external variable?

[Eli Friedman via llvm-dev]

On 1/18/2019 8:57 AM, Peng Yu via llvm-dev wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am trying to test whether an operand is external or not (code is
> shown below). The variable "U" should be a global variable. But
> hasExternalLinkage() returns 0 for it. Why is it so?

You probably want "!hasLocalLinkage()", or something like that. 
hasExternalLinkage() specifically checks for "external" linkage, but 
your variable has "common" linkage.  See 
http://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html#linkage-types .

-Eli

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