dblaikie added inline comments.

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Comment at: clang/test/CodeGen/unique-internal-linkage-names-dwarf.c:34-39
+static int go(a) int a;
+{
+  return glob + a;
+}
+
+
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hoy wrote:
> dblaikie wrote:
> > hoy wrote:
> > > dblaikie wrote:
> > > > Does this need to be down here? Or would the code be a well exercised 
> > > > if it was up next to the go declaration above?
> > > Yes, it needs to be here. Otherwise it will just like the function `bar` 
> > > above that doesn't get a uniquefied name. I think moving the definition 
> > > up to right after the declaration hides the declaration.
> > Not sure I follow - do you mean that if the go declaration and go 
> > definition were next to each other, this test would (mechanically speaking) 
> > not validate what the patch? Or that it would be less legible, but still 
> > mechanically correct?
> > 
> > I think it would be (assuming it's still mechanically correct) more legible 
> > to put the declaration next to the definition - the comment describes why 
> > the declaration is significant/why the definition is weird, and seeing all 
> > that together would be clearer to me than spreading it out/having to look 
> > further away to see what's going on.
> When the `go` declaration and `go` definition were next to each other, the go 
> function won't get a uniqufied name at all. The declaration will be 
> overwritten by the definition. Only when the declaration is seen by others, 
> such the callsite in `baz`, the declaration makes a difference by having the 
> callsite use a uniqufied name.
> 
> 
Ah! Interesting, good to know. 

Is that worth supporting, I wonder? I guess it falls out for free/without 
significant additional complexity. I worry about the subtlety of the additional 
declaration changing the behavior here... might be a bit surprising/subtle. But 
maybe no nice way to avoid it either.


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