On 13 May 2016 at 13:02, Steven Wu <steve...@apple.com> wrote:
> Hi Rafael
>
> Thanks for notice this! That would definitely cause duplicated symbol error 
> and I should definitely change that.
> Here is some background:
> ld64 in Xcode 7+ knows how to handle the embedded bitcode correctly but not 
> the ones in earlier Xcode. The old ld64 will simply concatenate the bitcode 
> files which is not the right thing to do. So there is a symbol generated at 
> the place to prevent user to link the bitcode object file with old ld64 
> because older ld64 will fail and report duplicated symbols.
> I have a radar tracking to change the linkage type when upstream but I 
> dropped the ball on that one. The correct thing to do is to make it internal 
> and add to llvm.used. I will come up with a patch.

Thank you so much!

Cheers,
Rafael
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