From 726d45c548a8f366562d4674418e8bfb7d4a56e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Anton Korobeynikov <asl@math.spbu.ru>
Date: Sat, 22 Mar 2008 08:36:14 +0000
Subject: [PATCH] Aliasing chains cleanups: update langref, add check into
 verifier

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@48685 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
---
 docs/LangRef.html       | 4 ++--
 lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp | 7 ++++++-
 2 files changed, 8 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

diff --git a/docs/LangRef.html b/docs/LangRef.html
index 41128c3b23a..096acf294a9 100644
--- a/docs/LangRef.html
+++ b/docs/LangRef.html
@@ -763,8 +763,8 @@ a power of 2.</p>
 </div>
 <div class="doc_text">
   <p>Aliases act as "second name" for the aliasee value (which can be either
-  function or global variable or bitcast of global value). Aliases may have an
-  optional <a href="#linkage">linkage type</a>, and an
+  function, global variable, another alias or bitcast of global value). Aliases
+  may have an optional <a href="#linkage">linkage type</a>, and an
   optional <a href="#visibility">visibility style</a>.</p>
 
   <h5>Syntax:</h5>
diff --git a/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp b/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp
index 6126253bfb9..f6bc4b9db0d 100644
--- a/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp
+++ b/lib/VMCore/Verifier.cpp
@@ -377,7 +377,12 @@ void Verifier::visitGlobalAlias(GlobalAlias &GA) {
             "Aliasee should be either GlobalValue or bitcast of GlobalValue",
             &GA);
   }
-  
+
+  const GlobalValue* Aliasee = GA.resolveAliasedGlobal();
+  Assert1(Aliasee,
+          "Aliasing chain should end with global function or global variable",
+          &GA);
+
   visitGlobalValue(GA);
 }