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/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp b/llvm/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
index 057ad916c7f..8b6aabb53af 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/VMCore/AsmWriter.cpp
@@ -1419,6 +1419,7 @@ static void PrintLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkageTypes LT,
   case GlobalValue::ExternalLinkage: break;
   case GlobalValue::PrivateLinkage:       Out << "private ";        break;
   case GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage: Out << "linker_private "; break;
+  case GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage:    Out << "linker_weak ";    break;
   case GlobalValue::InternalLinkage:      Out << "internal ";       break;
   case GlobalValue::LinkOnceAnyLinkage:   Out << "linkonce ";       break;
   case GlobalValue::LinkOnceODRLinkage:   Out << "linkonce_odr ";   break;