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, 5 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp b/llvm/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
index 295d14868f7..faf62ad6cc7 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/VMCore/Core.cpp
@@ -1058,6 +1058,8 @@ LLVMLinkage LLVMGetLinkage(LLVMValueRef Global) {
     return LLVMPrivateLinkage;
   case GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage:
     return LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage;
+  case GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage:
+    return LLVMLinkerWeakLinkage;
   case GlobalValue::DLLImportLinkage:
     return LLVMDLLImportLinkage;
   case GlobalValue::DLLExportLinkage:
@@ -1108,6 +1110,9 @@ void LLVMSetLinkage(LLVMValueRef Global, LLVMLinkage Linkage) {
   case LLVMLinkerPrivateLinkage:
     GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkerPrivateLinkage);
     break;
+  case LLVMLinkerWeakLinkage:
+    GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::LinkerWeakLinkage);
+    break;
   case LLVMDLLImportLinkage:
     GV->setLinkage(GlobalValue::DLLImportLinkage);
     break;