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		loeg on Sept 11, 2020 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: LLVM merges machine function splitter for reductio... Might be confusing to debuggers if the address-space range of a single function is discontiguous. Does the cold portion get an independent symbol with derived name, like, e.g., "Blocks?"

quotemstr on Sept 11, 2020 [–]

Yes --- the collection of cold basic blocks gets named "<origfunc>.cold". But it's nevertheless not really an independent function from a code POV.

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