If a global var decl has an initializer, make sure to always set its linkage to external.

llvm-svn: 60462

2 files changed, 9 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
index f0aa8b7d141..80ef53f5f9c 100644
--- a/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
+++ b/clang/lib/CodeGen/CodeGenModule.cpp
@@ -607,6 +607,8 @@ void CodeGenModule::EmitGlobalVarDefinition(const VarDecl *D) {
     case VarDecl::None:
       if (!D->getInit())
         GV->setLinkage(llvm::GlobalVariable::CommonLinkage);
+      else
+        GV->setLinkage(llvm::GlobalVariable::ExternalLinkage);
       break;
     case VarDecl::Extern:
     case VarDecl::PrivateExtern:
diff --git a/clang/test/CodeGen/global-init.c b/clang/test/CodeGen/global-init.c
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..133a3b5373f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/clang/test/CodeGen/global-init.c
@@ -0,0 +1,7 @@
+// RUN: clang -emit-llvm -o - %s | not grep "common"
+
+// This checks that the global won't be marked as common. 
+// (It shouldn't because it's being initialized).
+
+int a;
+int a = 242;