Merging data segments produces smaller code sizes because each segment
has some boilerplate. Therefore, merging data segments is generally the
right approach, especially with wasm where binaries are typically
delivered over the network.
However, when analyzing wasm binaries, it can be helpful to get a
conservative picture of which functions are using which data
segments[0]. Perhaps there is a large data segment that you didn't
expect to be included in the wasm, introduced by some library you're
using, and you'd like to know which library it was. In this scenario,
merging data segments only makes the analysis worse.
Alternatively, perhaps you will remove some dead functions by-hand[1]
that can't be statically proven dead by the compiler or lld, and
removing these functions might make some data garbage collect-able, and
you'd like to run `--gc-sections` again so that this now-unused data can
be collected. If the segments were originally merged, then a single use
of the merged data segment will entrench all of the data.
[0] https://github.com/rustwasm/twiggy
[1] https://github.com/fitzgen/wasm-snip
Patch by Nick Fitzgerald!
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46417
llvm-svn: 332013
This enables callback-style programming where the JavaScript environment
can call back into the Wasm environment using a function pointer
received from the module.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44427
llvm-svn: 328643
Group all synthetic symbols in the in single struct to match
the ELF linker.
This change is part of a larger change to add more linker
symbols such as `_end` and `_edata`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42866
llvm-svn: 324157
In this initial version we only GC symbols with `hidden` visibility since
other symbols we export to the embedder.
We could potentially modify this the future and only use symbols
explicitly passed via `--export` as GC roots.
This version of the code only does GC of data and code. GC for the
types section is coming soon.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42511
llvm-svn: 323842
This was added to mimic ELF, but maintaining it has cost
and we currently don't have any use for it outside of the
test code.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42324
llvm-svn: 323154
This is an immutable exported global representing
the start of the heap area. It is a page aligned.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D42030
llvm-svn: 322609
This is part of larger change to add synthetic symbols
for section start/end points and init/fini_array:
https://reviews.llvm.org/D40760
Allows synthetic global symbols to have an explicitly set
virtual address.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40843
llvm-svn: 319813
This change allows checking of function signatures but
does not yes enable it by default. In this mode, linking
two objects that were compiled with a different signatures
for the same function will produce a link error.
New options for enabling and disabling this feature have been
added: (--check-signatures/--no-check-signatures).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40371
llvm-svn: 319396
std::set is pretty slow. We generally prefer llvm::StringSet if we don't
need an sorted set.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40579
llvm-svn: 319371
These should get initialized in by Driver.cpp based on
command line options.
Also, sort entries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40570
llvm-svn: 319219
This linker backend is still a work in progress but is
enough to link simple programs including linking against
library archives.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34851
llvm-svn: 318539
Sam Clegg