The unnamedaddr property of a function is lost when using
-fwhole-program-vtables and thinlto which causes size increase under linker's
safe icf mode.
Chrome built with safe-icf on Linux and Windows reduced 2Mb binary size after
this change.
There is a repro:
# a.h struct A { virtual int f(); virtual int g(); }; # a.cpp #include "a.h" int A::f() { return 10; } int A::g() { return 10; } # main.cpp #include "a.h" int g(A* a) { return a->f(); } int main(int argv, char** args) { A a; return g(&a); } $ clang++ -O2 -ffunction-sections -flto=thin -fwhole-program-vtables -fsplit-lto-unit -c main.cpp -o main.o && clang++ -O2 -ffunction-sections -flto=thin -fwhole-program-vtables -fsplit-lto-unit -c a.cpp -o a.o && clang++ -Wl,--icf=safe -fuse-ld=lld -flto=thin a.o main.o -o a.out && llvm-readobj -t a.out | grep -A 1 -e _ZN1A1fEv -e _ZN1A1gEv Name: _ZN1A1fEv (480) Value: 0x201830 -- Name: _ZN1A1gEv (490) Value: 0x201840
Instead of iterating over return and parameter attributes, I suggest you build a new AttributeList that consists of nothing but function attributes. This code might work, but I haven't actually compiled it:
This has a nice side effect of not leaking lots of temporary AttributeList objects.