jhuber6 added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/tools/clang-linker-wrapper/ClangLinkerWrapper.cpp:1217-1218
+///   1) It defines an undefined symbol in a regular object filie.
+///   2) It defines a global symbol without hidden visibility that has not
+///      yet been defined.
+Expected<bool> getSymbols(StringRef Image, StringSaver &Saver,
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tra wrote:
> jhuber6 wrote:
> > tra wrote:
> > > How do we handle conflicting symbols defined more than once? 
> > > 
> > I just assume that will be caught by the actual linker, it's not relevant 
> > for knowing which symbols to pull out.
> That would be the case when we were loading all libraries at once.
> However, now that we load them as needed one by one, we may end up loading 
> only the first file which provides such symbol and would potentially ignore 
> others, if no other symbol requires loading them. Given that we're checking 
> the symbols anyways, it would be useful to diagnose it, IMO.
This is the expected behavior of static libraries right? `lld` has some option 
to print out why a certain library was extracted, we could do something similar?


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