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+//===- Analysis/ObjectUtils.h - analysis utils for object files -*- C++ -*-===//
+//
+//                     The LLVM Compiler Infrastructure
+//
+// This file is distributed under the University of Illinois Open Source
+// License. See LICENSE.TXT for details.
+//
+//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//
+
+#ifndef LLVM_ANALYSIS_OBJECT_UTILS_H
+#define LLVM_ANALYSIS_OBJECT_UTILS_H
+
+#include "llvm/IR/GlobalVariable.h"
+
+namespace llvm {
+
+/// True if GV can be left out of the object symbol table. This is the case
+/// for linkonce_odr values whose address is not significant. While legal, it is
+/// not normally profitable to omit them from the .o symbol table. Using this
+/// analysis makes sense when the information can be passed down to the linker
+/// or we are in LTO.
+inline bool canBeOmittedFromSymbolTable(const GlobalValue *GV) {
+  if (!GV->hasLinkOnceODRLinkage())
+    return false;
+
+  // We assume that anyone who sets global unnamed_addr on a non-constant knows
+  // what they're doing.
+  if (GV->hasGlobalUnnamedAddr())
+    return true;
+
+  // If it is a non constant variable, it needs to be uniqued across shared
+  // objects.
+  if (auto *Var = dyn_cast<GlobalVariable>(GV))
+    if (!Var->isConstant())
+      return false;
+
+  return GV->hasAtLeastLocalUnnamedAddr();
+}
+
+}
+
+#endif