+  auto Used = collectUsedGlobalVariables(*M, UsedGlobals, true);

Please use an explicit type instead of auto.

You deleted the assert

I think this is fine otherwise.

Cheers,
Rafael





On 13 May 2016 at 20:00, Steven Wu <steve...@apple.com> wrote:
>
>> On May 13, 2016, at 3:56 PM, Duncan P. N. Exon Smith <dexonsm...@apple.com> 
>> wrote:
>>
>> Is this something that you need the linker to treat as "used", or just 
>> something you don't want the compiler to drop?  If the latter, 
>> @llvm.compiler.used seems more appropriate.
>
> Bitcode is actually not really used by the compiler during compilation and 
> shouldn't really used by any part of the code. llvm.compiler.used then.
>
> New patch.
>
>
>
>
> Steven
>
>>
>>> On 2016-May-13, at 14:01, Steven Wu <steve...@apple.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Attach a patch using private linkage type and adding to llvm.used. I have 
>>> to recreate llvm.used when embedding bitcode. I don't really like it but I 
>>> don't have better solutions.
>>> Few other options:
>>> 1. Not allowing re-embedded bitcode will simplify the code a bit but not a 
>>> lot.
>>> 2. Create a new "llvm.*.used" variable in llvm.metadata section.
>>> 3. Teach optimizer do not optimize away llvm.* variables.
>>>
>>> <0001-Fix-embed-bitcode-linkage-type.patch>
>>>
>>> Steven
>>>
>>>> On May 13, 2016, at 10:10 AM, Rafael Espíndola 
>>>> <rafael.espind...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> 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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