llvm/tools/gold
Teresa Johnson 4fbd8ea38e [ThinLTO] Ensure prevailing linkonce emitted as weak in ThinLTO backends
Summary:
Since IR files are all compiled into separate independent object files
in ThinLTO mode, the prevailing linkonce symbols must be emitted in its
object file even if it is no longer referenced there, e.g. if no
references remain in the module after inlining, since it may be
referenced by another ThinLTO compiled object file. This is done by
changing LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF_IRONLY* symbols to LDPR_PREVAILING_DEF,
which converts the prevailing linkonce to weak. We also don't need the
other prevailing IRONLY handling for internalization, which is not
currently performed for ThinLTO.

Test case included.

Reviewers: davidxl, rafael

Subscribers: rafael, joker.eph, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16173

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@262727 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2016-03-04 17:48:35 +00:00
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CMakeLists.txt
gold-plugin.cpp [ThinLTO] Ensure prevailing linkonce emitted as weak in ThinLTO backends 2016-03-04 17:48:35 +00:00
gold.exports
README.txt

The LLVM Gold LTO Plugin
========================

This directory contains a plugin that is designed to work with binutils
gold linker. At present time, this is not the default linker in
binutils, and the default build of gold does not support plugins.

See docs/GoldPlugin.html for complete build and usage instructions.

NOTE: libLTO and LLVMgold aren't built without PIC because they would fail
to link on x86-64 with a relocation error: PIC and non-PIC can't be combined.
As an alternative to passing --enable-pic, you can use 'make ENABLE_PIC=1' in
your entire LLVM build.