From 40db5155fbd78faa792aefec5ceddcbf4fc3bb41 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Rafael Espindola Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2013 12:51:24 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Mention the changes in the handling of language linkage in the release notes. git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/cfe/trunk@179094 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8 --- docs/ReleaseNotes.rst | 6 ++++++ 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+) diff --git a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst index d9a3364606..fbcd1eff86 100644 --- a/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst +++ b/docs/ReleaseNotes.rst @@ -81,6 +81,12 @@ C11 Feature Support C++ Language Changes in Clang ----------------------------- +- Clang now correctly implements language linkage for functions and variables. + This means that, for example, it is now possible to overload static functions + declared in an ``extern "C"`` context. For backwards compatibility, an alias + with the unmangled name is still emitted if it is the only one and has the + ``used`` attribute. + C++11 Feature Support ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ -- 2.40.0