Chris Lattner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > LLVM LTO handles this by marking symbols "internal" (aka static, aka > not TREE_PUBLIC, whatever) when the symbol is not visible outside the > LTO scope. This allows the optimizers to go crazy and hack away at > the symbols, but only when safe.
How does the linker do this? Are you saying that when generating a shared library, the linker calls lto_codegen_add_must_preserve_symbol for every externally visible symbol? How does the linker tell LTO that a symbol may be inlined, but must also be externally visible? Ian
