MC already knows how to emulate the .weak directive (with its ELF
semantics; i.e., an undefined weak symbol resolves to 0, and a defined
weak symbol has lower link precedence than a strong symbol of the same
name) using COFF weak externals. Plumb this through the ASM printer too,
so that definitions marked with __attribute__((weak)) at the language
level (which gets translated to weak linkage at the IR level) have the
corresponding .weak directive emitted. Note that declarations marked
with __attribute__((weak)) at the language level (which translates to
extern_weak at the IR level) already have .weak directives emitted.
Weak*/linkonce* symbols without an associated comdat (in particular, ones
generated with __attribute__((weak)) in C/C++) were earlier emitted as
normal unique globals, as the comdat is required to provide the linkonce
semantics. This change makes sure they are emitted as .weak instead,
allowing other symbols to override them.
Rename the existing coff-weak.ll test to coff-linkonce.ll. I'm not
quite sure what that test covers, since the behavior being tested in it
(the emission of a one_only section) is just a result of passing
-function-sections to llc; the linkonce_odr makes no difference.
Add a new coff-weak.ll which tests the new directive emission.
Based on an previous patch by Shoaib Meenai.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44543
It is mandatory to specify a comdat in order to receive comdat semantics
for a symbol. We were previously getting this wrong in -function-sections
mode; linker-weak symbols were being emitted in a selectany comdat. This
change causes such symbols to use a noduplicates comdat instead, fixing
the inconsistency.
Also correct an inaccuracy in the docs.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10828
llvm-svn: 241103
