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diff --git a/include/llvm/Module.h b/include/llvm/Module.h
index 1ee8750eca..da2b53ddb5 100644
--- a/include/llvm/Module.h
+++ b/include/llvm/Module.h
@@ -137,13 +137,14 @@ public:
//
/// getGlobalVariable - Look up the specified global variable in the module
- /// symbol table. If it does not exist, return null. Note that this only
- /// returns a global variable if it does not have internal linkage. The type
- /// argument should be the underlying type of the global, i.e., it should not
- /// have the top-level PointerType, which represents the address of the
- /// global.
+ /// symbol table. If it does not exist, return null. The type argument
+ /// should be the underlying type of the global, i.e., it should not have
+ /// the top-level PointerType, which represents the address of the global.
+ /// If AllowInternal is set to true, this function will return types that
+ /// have InternalLinkage. By default, these types are not returned.
///
- GlobalVariable *getGlobalVariable(const std::string &Name, const Type *Ty);
+ GlobalVariable *getGlobalVariable(const std::string &Name, const Type *Ty,
+ bool AllowInternal = false);
//===--------------------------------------------------------------------===//