1 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/backend/src/llvm/llvm_gen_backend.cpp b/backend/src/llvm/llvm_gen_backend.cpp
index 577564dc..c2c60a80 100644
--- a/backend/src/llvm/llvm_gen_backend.cpp
+++ b/backend/src/llvm/llvm_gen_backend.cpp
@@ -1702,7 +1702,21 @@ namespace gbe
         GBE_ASSERT(con.getName() == v.getName());
         ctx.LOADI(ir::TYPE_S32, reg, ctx.newIntegerImmediate(con.getOffset(), ir::TYPE_S32));
       } else {
-        GBE_ASSERT(0);
+	if(v.getName().str().substr(0, 4) == ".str") {
+          /* When there are multi printf statements in multi kernel fucntions within the same
+             translate unit, if they have the same sting parameter, such as
+             kernel_func1 () {
+               printf("Line is %d\n", line_num1);
+             }
+             kernel_func2 () {
+               printf("Line is %d\n", line_num2);
+             }
+             The Clang will just generate one global string named .strXXX to represent "Line is %d\n"
+             So when translating the kernel_func1, we can not unref that global var, so we will
+             get here. Just ignore it to avoid assert. */
+        } else {
+          GBE_ASSERT(0);
+        }
       }
     }