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    Introduce new linkage types linkonce_odr, weak_odr, common_odr · 12da8ce3
    Duncan Sands authored
    and extern_weak_odr.  These are the same as the non-odr versions,
    except that they indicate that the global will only be overridden
    by an *equivalent* global.  In C, a function with weak linkage can
    be overridden by a function which behaves completely differently.
    This means that IP passes have to skip weak functions, since any
    deductions made from the function definition might be wrong, since
    the definition could be replaced by something completely different
    at link time.   This is not allowed in C++, thanks to the ODR
    (One-Definition-Rule): if a function is replaced by another at
    link-time, then the new function must be the same as the original
    function.  If a language knows that a function or other global can
    only be overridden by an equivalent global, it can give it the
    weak_odr linkage type, and the optimizers will understand that it
    is alright to make deductions based on the function body.  The
    code generators on the other hand map weak and weak_odr linkage
    to the same thing.
    
    llvm-svn: 66339
    12da8ce3
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