Introducing the "linker_weak" linkage type. This will be used for Objective-C

metadata types which should be marked as "weak", but which the linker will
remove upon final linkage. For example, the "objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc" symbol is
defined like this:

       .globl l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc
       .weak_definition l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc
       .section __DATA, __objc_msgrefs, coalesced
       .align 3
l_objc_msgSend_fixup_alloc:
        .quad   _objc_msgSend_fixup
        .quad   L_OBJC_METH_VAR_NAME_1

This is different from the "linker_private" linkage type, because it can't have
the metadata defined with ".weak_definition".

llvm-svn: 107205

1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/include/llvm-c/Core.h b/llvm/include/llvm-c/Core.h
index d665c89377f..23b4f83528e 100644
--- a/llvm/include/llvm-c/Core.h
+++ b/llvm/include/llvm-c/Core.h
@@ -226,7 +226,8 @@ typedef enum {
   LLVMExternalWeakLinkage,/**< ExternalWeak linkage description */
   LLVMGhostLinkage,       /**< Obsolete */
   LLVMCommonLinkage,      /**< Tentative definitions */
-  LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage /**< Like Private, but linker removes. */
+  LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage, /**< Like private, but linker removes. */
+  LLVMLinkerWeakLinkage   /**< Like linker private, but weak. */
 } LLVMLinkage;
 
 typedef enum {