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Commit 10039c02 authored by Peter Collingbourne's avatar Peter Collingbourne
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LTO: introduce object file-based on-disk module format.

This format is simply a regular object file with the bitcode stored in a
section named ".llvmbc", plus any number of other (non-allocated) sections.

One immediate use case for this is to accommodate compilation processes
which expect the object file to contain metadata in non-allocated sections,
such as the ".go_export" section used by some Go compilers [1], although I
imagine that in the future we could consider compiling parts of the module
(such as large non-inlinable functions) directly into the object file to
improve LTO efficiency.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo#Imports

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4371

llvm-svn: 218078
parent 6bf091c6
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