Before this patch we had
@a = weak global ...
but
@b = alias weak ...
The patch changes aliases to look more like global variables.
Looking at some really old code suggests that the reason was that the old
bison based parser had a reduction for alias linkages and another one for
global variable linkages. Putting the alias first avoided the reduce/reduce
conflict.
The days of the old .ll parser are long gone. The new one parses just "linkage"
and a later check is responsible for deciding if a linkage is valid in a
given context.
llvm-svn: 214355
To avoid unnecessary forward references, the reader doesn't process
initializers of `GlobalValue`s until after the constant pool has been
processed, and then in reverse order. Model this when predicting
use-list order. This gets two more Bitcode tests passing with
`llvm-uselistorder`.
Part of PR5680.
llvm-svn: 214242
Visibilities of `hidden` and `protected` are meaningless for symbols
with local linkage.
- Change the assembler to reject non-default visibility on symbols
with local linkage.
- Change the bitcode reader to auto-upgrade `hidden` and `protected`
to `default` when the linkage is local.
- Update LangRef.
<rdar://problem/16141113>
llvm-svn: 208263