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, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp b/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
index a252da26f1d..71efeff4d3b 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Bitcode/Reader/BitcodeReader.cpp
@@ -75,6 +75,7 @@ static GlobalValue::LinkageTypes GetDecodedLinkage(unsigned Val) {
   case 11: return GlobalValue::LinkOnceODRLinkage;
   case 12: return GlobalValue::AvailableExternallyLinkage;
   case 13: return GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage;
+  case 14: return GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage;
   }
 }