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Commit 8fc67fba authored by Nick Kledzik's avatar Nick Kledzik
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[mach-o] Support re-exported dylibs

In general two-level namespace means each program records exactly which dylib
each undefined (imported) symbol comes from.  But, sometimes the implementor
wants to hide the implementation dylib.  For instance libSytem.dylib is the base
dylib all Darwin programs must link with.  A few years ago it was split up
into two dozen dylibs by all are hidden behind libSystem.dylib which re-exports
each sub-dylib.  All clients still think libSystem.dylib is the implementor.

To support this, the linker must load "indirect" dylibs and not just the
"direct" dylibs specified on the command line.  This is done in the
createImplicitFiles() method after all command line specified files are
loaded.  Since an indirect dylib may have already been loaded as a direct dylib
(or indirectly via a previous direct dylib), the MachOLinkingContext keeps
a list of all loaded dylibs.

With this change hello world can now be linked against the real OS or SDK.

llvm-svn: 215605
parent 57fb040b
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