Chunk has writeTo function which takes uint8_t *Buf.
writeHeaderTo feels more consistent with that because this member
function also takes uint8_t *Buf.
llvm-svn: 239236
Previously, half of the constructor for .idata contents was in Chunks.cpp
and the rest was in Writer.cpp. This patch moves the latter to Chunks.cpp.
Now IdataContents class manages everything for .idata section.
llvm-svn: 239230
Not only entry point symbol but also symbols specified by /include
option must be preserved, as they will never be dead-stripped.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10220
llvm-svn: 239005
Section names were truncated to 8 bytes because the section table's
name field is 8 byte long. This patch creates the string table to
store long names.
llvm-svn: 238661
This is an initial patch for a section-based COFF linker.
The patch has 2300 lines of code including comments and blank lines.
Before diving into details, you want to start from reading README
because it should give you an overview of the design.
All important things are written in the README file, so I write
summary here.
- The linker is already able to self-link on Windows.
- It's significantly faster than the existing implementation.
The existing one takes 5 seconds to link LLD on my machine,
while the new one only takes 1.2 seconds, even though the new
one is not multi-threaded yet. (And a proof-of-concept multi-
threaded version was able to link it in 0.5 seconds.)
- It uses much less memory (250MB vs. 2GB virtual memory space
to self-host).
- IMHO the new code is much simpler and easier to read than
the existing PE/COFF port.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10036
llvm-svn: 238458
Rui Ueyama