Make global aliases have symbol size equal to their type

This is mainly for the benefit of GlobalMerge, so that an alias into a
MergedGlobals variable has the same size as the original non-merged
variable.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D10837

llvm-svn: 242520

1 files changed, 10 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
index 6766fb62b66..068b9172e9f 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
@@ -1111,6 +1111,16 @@ bool AsmPrinter::doFinalization(Module &M) {
 
     // Emit the directives as assignments aka .set:
     OutStreamer->EmitAssignment(Name, lowerConstant(Alias.getAliasee()));
+
+    // Set the size of the alias symbol if we can, as otherwise the alias gets
+    // the size of the aliasee which may not be correct e.g. if the alias is of
+    // a member of a struct.
+    if (MAI->hasDotTypeDotSizeDirective() && Alias.getValueType()->isSized()) {
+      const DataLayout &DL = M.getDataLayout();
+      uint64_t Size = DL.getTypeAllocSize(Alias.getValueType());
+      OutStreamer->emitELFSize(cast<MCSymbolELF>(Name),
+                               MCConstantExpr::create(Size, OutContext));
+    }
   }
 
   GCModuleInfo *MI = getAnalysisIfAvailable<GCModuleInfo>();