Modify emission of jump tables on darwin to emit an extra "l" label that

delimits the boundaries of jump tables.  This lets the linker's dead code
stripping optimization do a better job.

llvm-svn: 33362

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetAsmInfo.cpp b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetAsmInfo.cpp
index 65848e53765..d70ef6d9013 100644
--- a/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetAsmInfo.cpp
+++ b/llvm/lib/Target/ARM/ARMTargetAsmInfo.cpp
@@ -33,6 +33,13 @@ ARMTargetAsmInfo::ARMTargetAsmInfo(const ARMTargetMachine &TM) {
     LCOMMDirective = "\t.lcomm\t";
     COMMDirectiveTakesAlignment = false;
     
+    // In non-PIC modes, emit a special label before jump tables so that the
+    // linker can perform more accurate dead code stripping.
+    if (TM.getRelocationModel() != Reloc::PIC_) {
+      // Emit a local label that is preserved until the linker runs.
+      JumpTableSpecialLabelPrefix = "l";
+    }
+    
     NeedsSet = true;
     DwarfAbbrevSection = ".section __DWARF,__debug_abbrev,regular,debug";
     DwarfInfoSection = ".section __DWARF,__debug_info,regular,debug";