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@@ -681,6 +681,10 @@ the aliasee.
The aliasee must be a definition.
+Aliases are not allowed to point to aliases with linkages that can be
+overridden. Since they are only a second name, the possibility of the
+intermediate alias being overridden cannot be represented in an object file.
+
.. _namedmetadatastructure:
Named Metadata