Drop "readonly" LLVM attribute from references to opaque C++ types #1370
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@capickett noticed that passing a cxx-generated opaque C++ type by reference gets annotated with an unwanted, incorrect
readonly
attribute. We have observed miscompiles that arise from this in real-world code when using cross-language ThinLTO.According to https://llvm.org/docs/LangRef.html:
For the following repro:
this is the LLVM IR generated before this PR:
and after: