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Commit a83c3f78 authored by Teresa Johnson's avatar Teresa Johnson
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[LTO] Prevent dead stripping and internalization of symbols with sections

Summary:
ELF linkers generate __start_<secname> and __stop_<secname> symbols
when there is a value in a section <secname> where the name is a valid
C identifier.  If dead stripping determines that the values declared
in section <secname> are dead, and we then internalize (and delete)
such a symbol, programs that reference the corresponding start and end
section symbols will get undefined reference linking errors.

To fix this, add the section name to the IRSymtab entry when a symbol is
defined in a specific section. Then use this in the gold-plugin to mark
the symbol as external and visible from outside the summary when the
section name is a valid C identifier.

Reviewers: pcc

Subscribers: mehdi_amini, inglorion, eraman, llvm-commits

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35639

llvm-svn: 309009
parent 612d9184
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