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As discovered in #85461, the MSVC linker treats weak symbols slightly differently than unix-y linkers do. This causes link.exe to fail with LNK1227 "conflicting weak extern definition" where as other targets are able to link successfully. This changes the dead functions from being generated as weak/hidden to private/default which, as the LLVM reference says: > Global values with “private” linkage are only directly accessible by objects in the current module. In particular, linking code into a module with a private global value may cause the private to be renamed as necessary to avoid collisions. Because the symbol is private to the module, all references can be updated. This doesn’t show up in any symbol table in the object file. This fixes the conflicting weak symbols but doesn't address the reason *why* we have conflicting symbols for these dead functions. The test cases added in this commit contain a minimal repro of the fundamental issue which is that the logic used to decide what dead code functions should be codegen'd in the current CGU doesn't take into account that functions can be duplicated across multiple CGUs (for instance, in the case of `#[inline(always)]` functions). Fixing that is likely to be a more complex change (see https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/issues/85461#issuecomment-985005805). Fixes #85461 |
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The codegen crate contains the code to convert from MIR into LLVM IR,
and then from LLVM IR into machine code. In general it contains code
that runs towards the end of the compilation process.
For more information about how codegen works, see the rustc dev guide.