eandrews updated this revision to Diff 111227. eandrews added a comment. I updated the documentation to include Simon's comments. I wasn't sure whether to include the line about section information being retained in LLVM IR, since Eli mentioned it could vary for different front-ends. I have included it in this revision.
https://reviews.llvm.org/D36712 Files: docs/LangRef.rst Index: docs/LangRef.rst =================================================================== --- docs/LangRef.rst +++ docs/LangRef.rst @@ -622,6 +622,12 @@ Additionally, the global can placed in a comdat if the target has the necessary support. +External declarations may have an explicit section specified. Section +information is retained in LLVM IR for targets that make use of this +information. Attaching section information to an external declaration is an +assertion that it's definition is located in the specified section. If the +definition is located in a different section, the behavior is undefined. + By default, global initializers are optimized by assuming that global variables defined within the module are not modified from their initial values before the start of the global initializer. This is
Index: docs/LangRef.rst =================================================================== --- docs/LangRef.rst +++ docs/LangRef.rst @@ -622,6 +622,12 @@ Additionally, the global can placed in a comdat if the target has the necessary support. +External declarations may have an explicit section specified. Section +information is retained in LLVM IR for targets that make use of this +information. Attaching section information to an external declaration is an +assertion that it's definition is located in the specified section. If the +definition is located in a different section, the behavior is undefined. + By default, global initializers are optimized by assuming that global variables defined within the module are not modified from their initial values before the start of the global initializer. This is
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