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Commit d3cf025a authored by George Burgess IV's avatar George Burgess IV
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[Sema] Allow unmarked overloadable functions.

This patch extends the `overloadable` attribute to allow for one
function with a given name to not be marked with the `overloadable`
attribute. The overload without the `overloadable` attribute will not
have its name mangled.

So, the following code is now legal:

  void foo(void) __attribute__((overloadable));
  void foo(int);
  void foo(float) __attribute__((overloadable));

In addition, this patch fixes a bug where we'd accept code with
`__attribute__((overloadable))` inconsistently applied. In other words,
we used to accept:

  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) __attribute__((overloadable));

But we will do this no longer, since it defeats the original purpose of
requiring `__attribute__((overloadable))` on all redeclarations of a
function.

This breakage seems to not be an issue in practice, since the only code
I could find that had this pattern often looked like:

  void foo(void);
  void foo(void) __attribute__((overloadable)) __asm__("foo");
  void foo(int) __attribute__((overloadable));

...Which can now be simplified by simply removing the asm label and
overloadable attribute from the redeclaration of `void foo(void);`

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32332

llvm-svn: 306467
parent 0b7688e6
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