JonChesterfield added a comment.

In D89994#2348656 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D89994#2348656>, @ABataev wrote:

> In D89994#2348655 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D89994#2348655>, @JonChesterfield 
> wrote:
>
>> The nvptx back end accepts common + zero + shared, but not common + undef + 
>> shared. I think weak_odr is conceptually right here, but given the warning 
>> that nvlink doesn't support weak symbols, internal also seems fine. Can 
>> someone see an advantage to weak over internal? It could be arch specific at 
>> the risk of a lot of test duplication.
>
> IIRC, it supports weak symbols, but does not support weak symbols of 
> different sizes.

That seems a reasonable restriction. Linkers sometimes pick the first weak 
symbol they see. Comdat might mean pick the biggest one, but that's probably 
not a good thing to rely on.


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