Never use .lcomm on platforms where it does not accept an alignment

argument.  Instead, use a pair of .local and .comm directives.

This avoids spurious differences between binaries built by the
integrated assembler vs. those built by the external assembler,
since the external assembler may impose alignment requirements
on .lcomm symbols where the integrated assembler does not.


git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@168704 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8

1 files changed, 7 insertions, 2 deletions

diff --git a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
index 52840faf7c..72b2f0c62a 100644
--- a/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
+++ b/lib/CodeGen/AsmPrinter/AsmPrinter.cpp
@@ -308,8 +308,13 @@ void AsmPrinter::EmitGlobalVariable(const GlobalVariable *GV) {
       return;
     }
 
-    if (Align == 1 ||
-        MAI->getLCOMMDirectiveAlignmentType() != LCOMM::NoAlignment) {
+    // Use .lcomm only if it supports user-specified alignment.
+    // Otherwise, while it would still be correct to use .lcomm in some
+    // cases (e.g. when Align == 1), the external assembler might enfore
+    // some -unknown- default alignment behavior, which could cause
+    // spurious differences between external and integrated assembler.
+    // Prefer to simply fall back to .local / .comm in this case.
+    if (MAI->getLCOMMDirectiveAlignmentType() != LCOMM::NoAlignment) {
       // .lcomm _foo, 42
       OutStreamer.EmitLocalCommonSymbol(GVSym, Size, Align);
       return;