The approach I took was to define a dialect 'extern' attribute that a GlobalOp can take as a value to signify external linkage. I think this approach should compose well and should also work with wherever the OpaqueElements work goes in the future (since that is just another kind of attribute). I special cased the GlobalOp parser/printer for this case because it is significantly easier on the eyes. In the discussion, Jeff Niu had proposed an alternative syntax for GlobalOp that I ended up not taking. I did try to implement it but a) I don't think it made anything easier to read in the common case, and b) it made the parsing/printing logic a lot more complicated (I think I would need a completely custom parser/printer to do it well). Please have a look at the common cases where the global type and initial value type match: I don't think how I have it is too bad. The less common cases seem ok to me. I chose to only implement the direct, constant load op since that is non side effecting and there was still discussion pending on that. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124318
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MLIR
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219 B
MLIR
// RUN: mlir-opt %s --allow-unregistered-dialect | mlir-opt --allow-unregistered-dialect | FileCheck %s
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// CHECK: #ml_program.extern : i32
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"unregistered.attributes"() {
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value = #ml_program.extern : i32
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} : () -> ()
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