When using weak symbols, the WinCOFFObjectWriter keeps a list (WeakDefaults)
that's used to make names unique. This list should be reset when the object
writer is reset, because otherwise reuse of the object writer can result in
freed symbols being accessed. With some added output, this becomes clear when
using llc in --run-twice mode:
$ ./llc --compile-twice -mtriple=x86_64-pc-win32 trivial.ll -filetype=obj DefineSymbol::WeakDefaults - .weak.foo.default - .weak.bar.default DefineSymbol::WeakDefaults - .weak.foo.default - áÑJij⌂ p§┼Ø┐☺ - .debug_macinfo.dw - .weak.bar.default
This does not seem to leak into the output object file though, so I couldn't
come up with a test. I added one that just does --run-twice (and verified
that it does access freed memory), which should result in detecting the
invalid memory accesses when running under ASAN.
Observed in a Julia PR where we started using weak symbols:
https://github.com/JuliaLang/julia/pull/45649