SHF_GROUP: Group Member Sections
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A section which is part of a group, and is to be retained or discarded with the
group as a whole, is identified by a new section header attribute: SHF_GROUP
This section is a member (perhaps the only one) of a group of sections, and the
linker should retain or discard all or none of the members. This section must be
referenced in a SHT_GROUP section. This attribute flag may be set in any section
header, and no other modification or indication is made in the grouped sections.
All additional information is contained in the associated SHT_GROUP section.
SHT_GROUP: Section Group Definition
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Represents a group section.
The section group's sh_link field identifies a symbol table section, and its
sh_info field the index of a symbol in that section. The name of that symbol is
treated as the identifier of the section group.
More information: https://mentorembedded.github.io/cxx-abi/abi/prop-72-comdat.html
Added a lot of extensive tests, that tests functionality.
llvm-svn: 230195
When the GNU linker sees two input sections with the same name, and the name
starts with ".gnu.linkonce.", the linker will only keep one copy and discard the
other. Any section whose name starts with “.gnu.linkonce.” is a COMDAT section.
Some architectures like Hexagon use this section to store floating point constants,
that need be deduped.
This patch adds gnu.linkonce functionality to the ELFReader.
llvm-svn: 230194
There is code(added by me) in the YAMLReader which isn't correct when it handles references
for section groups. The test case was also checking for wrong outputs.
This fixes the bug and the testcase so that they check for proper outputs.
llvm-svn: 230190
The round-trip passes were introduced in r193300. The intention of
the change was to make sure that LLD is capable of reading end
writing such file formats.
But that turned out to be yet another over-designed stuff that had
been slowing down everyday development.
The passes ran after the core linker and before the writer. If you
had an additional piece of information that needs to be passed from
front-end to the writer, you had to invent a way to save the data to
YAML/Native. These passes forced us to do that even if that data
was not needed to be represented neither in an object file nor in
an executable/DSO. It doesn't make sense. We don't need these passes.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7480
llvm-svn: 230069
This is yet another edge case of base relocation for symbols. Absolute
symbols are in general not target of base relocation because absolute
atom is a way to point to a specific memory location. In r229816, I
removed entries for absolute atoms from the base relocation table
(so that they won't be fixed by the loader).
However, there was one exception -- ImageBase. ImageBase points to the
start address of the current image in memory. That needs to be fixed up
at load time. This patch is to treat the symbol in a special manner.
llvm-svn: 229961
Previously we wrongly emitted a base relocation entry for an absolute symbol.
That made the loader to rewrite some instruction operands with wrong values
only when a DLL is not loaded at the default address. That caused a
misterious crash of some executable.
Absolute symbols will of course never change value wherever the binary is
loaded to memory. We shouldn't emit base relocations for absolute symbols.
llvm-svn: 229816
When this test was written, no llvm tool could print out contents
of base relocation section. Now llvm-readobj is able to dump it in
a text format. Use that tool to make this test readable.
llvm-svn: 229814
Weak aliases defined using /alternatename command line option were getting
wrong RVAs in the final output because of wrong atom ordinal. Alias atoms
were assigned large ordinals than any other regular atoms because they were
instantiated after other atoms and just got new (larger) ordinals.
Atoms are sorted by its file and atom ordinals in the order pass. Alias
atoms were located after all other atoms in the same file.
An alias atom's ordinal needs to be smaller than its alias target but larger
than the atom appeared before the target -- so that the alias is located
between the two. Since an alias has no size, the alias target will be located
at the same location as the alias.
In this patch, I made a gap between two regular atoms so that we can put
aliases after instantiating them (without re-numbering existing atoms).
llvm-svn: 229762
The atoms may be processed in different orders on different systems
based on allocated addresses. This is a bit unfortunate as it would
be nice to have error messages emitted in order of file contents.
However we are emitting errors inside a parallel_for_each so even if
we stabilize the order of atom processing we would need to do some
further work in order to ensure that thread scheduling doesn't perturb
the order of errors. For now switch to using CHECK-DAG instead of CHECK.
llvm-svn: 229487
Use a wrapper function for symbol. Any undefined reference to symbol will be
resolved to "__wrap_symbol". Any undefined reference to "__real_symbol" will be
resolved to symbol.
This can be used to provide a wrapper for a system function. The wrapper
function should be called "__wrap_symbol". If it wishes to call the system
function, it should call "__real_symbol".
Here is a trivial example:
void * __wrap_malloc (size_t c)
{
printf ("malloc called with %zu\n", c);
return __real_malloc (c);
}
If you link other code with this file using --wrap malloc, then all calls
to "malloc" will call the function "__wrap_malloc" instead. The call to
"__real_malloc" in "__wrap_malloc" will call the real "malloc" function.
llvm-svn: 228906
When calling ARM code from Thumb and vice versa,
a veneer that switches instruction set should be generated.
Added veneer generation for ARM_JUMP24 ARM_THM_JUMP24 instructions.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7502
llvm-svn: 228680
The real user of the LayoutPass is now only Mach-O, so move that
pass out of the common directory to Mach-O directory.
"Core" architecture were using the LayoutPass. I modified that
to use a simple OrderPass. I think no one actually have authority
what feature should be in Core and what's not, but I believe the
LayoutPass is not very suitable for Core. Before more code starts
depending on the complex pass, it's better to remove that from
Core.
I could have simplified that pass because Mach-O is the only user
of the LayoutPass. For example, the second parameter of the
LayoutPass constructor can be converted from optional to mandatory.
I didn't do that in this patch to keep it simple. I'll do in a
followup patch.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7311
llvm-svn: 228341
Previously, we incorrectly added the image base address to an absolute
symbol address (that calculation doesn't make any sense) if an
IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR32 relocation is applied to an absolute symbol.
This patch fixes the issue. With this fix, we can link Bochs using LLD.
(Choosing Bochs has no special meaining -- I just picked it up as a
test program and found it didn't work.) This also fixes one of the
issues we currently have to link Chromium using LLD.
llvm-svn: 228279
Added relocations to perform function calls with and without passing arguments.
ARM-only, Thumb-only and mixed mode code generations are supported.
Only simple veneers (direct instruction modification) are supported as ARM-Thumb interwork.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7223
llvm-svn: 227961
Previously we applied the LayoutPass to order atoms and then
apply elf::ArrayOrderPass to sort them again. The first pass is
basically supposed to sort atoms in the normal fashion (which
is to sort symbols in the same order as the input files).
The second pass sorts atoms in {init,fini}_array.<priority> by
priority.
The problem is that the LayoutPass is overkill. It analyzes
references between atoms to make a decision how to sort them.
It's slow, hard to understand, and above all, it doesn't seem
that we need its feature for ELF in the first place.
This patch remove the LayoutPass from ELF pass list. Now all
reordering is done in elf::OrderPass. That pass sorts atoms by
{init,fini}_array, and if they are not in the special section,
they are ordered as the same order as they appear in the command
line. The new code is far easier to understand, faster, and
still able to create valid executables.
Unlike the previous layout pass, elf::OrderPass doesn't count
any attributes of an atom (e.g. permissions) except its
position. It's OK because the writer takes care of them if we
have to.
This patch changes the order of final output, although that's
benign. Tests are updated.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7278
llvm-svn: 227666
The LayoutPass is one of the slowest pass. This change is to skip
that pass. This change not only improve performance but also improve
maintainability of the code because the LayoutPass is pretty complex.
Previously we used the LayoutPass to sort all atoms in a specific way,
and reorder them again for PE/COFF in GroupedSectionPass.
I spent time on improving and fixing bugs in the LayoutPass (e.g.
r193029), but the pass is still hard to understand and hard to use.
It's better not to depend on that if we don't need. For PE/COFF, we
just wanted to sort atoms in the same order as the file order in the
command line.
The feature we used in the LayoutPass is now simplified to
compareByPosition function in OrderPass.cpp. The function is just 5
lines.
This patch changes the order of final output because it changes the
sort order a bit. The output is still correct, though.
llvm-svn: 227500
That kind of reference was used only in ELFFile, and the use of
that reference there didn't seem to make sense. All test still
pass (after adjusting symbol names) without that code. LLD is
still be able to link LLD and Clang. Looks like we just don't
need this.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7189
llvm-svn: 227259
Symbols addressing Thumb code have zero bit set in st_value to distinguish them from ARM instructions.
This caused wrong atoms' forming because of offset of one byte brought in by that corrected st_value.
Fixed reading of st_value & st_value-related things in ARMELFFile while forming atoms.
Symbol table generation is also fixed for Thumb atoms.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D7161
llvm-svn: 227174
This is initial patch to support MIPS64 object files linking.
The patch just makes some classes more generalized, and rejects
attempts to interlinking O32 and N64 ABI object files.
I try to reuse the current MIPS target related classes as much as
possible because O32 and N64 MIPS ABI are tightly related and share
almost the same set of relocations, GOT, flags etc.
llvm-svn: 227058
yaml2obj command ran by this test took more than 15 seconds to finish
because of extremely large .bss section. Other tests only takes 3 seconds.
Reduce the size to make it faster.
llvm-svn: 226693
The code is able to statically link the simplest case of:
int main() { return 0; }
* Only works with ARM code - no Thumb code, no interwork (-marm -mno-thumb-interwork)
* musl libc built with no interwork and no Thumb code
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6716
From: Denis Protivensky <dprotivensky@accesssoftek.com>
llvm-svn: 226643
We used to manage the state whether we are in a group or not
using a counter. The counter is incremented by one if we jump from
end-group to start-group, and decremented by one if we don't.
The counter was assumed to be either zero or one, but obviously it
could be negative (if there's a group which is not repeated at all).
This is a fix for that issue.
llvm-svn: 226632
sh_addralign of zero is equivalent to sh_addralign of one, meaning
no alignment specified. Avoid calculating Log2 or modulus when
sh_addralign is zero as the results will not be useful.
llvm-svn: 226572
The previous default behavior of LLD is --as-needed. LLD linked
against a DSO only if the DSO file was actually used to link an
executable (i.e. at least one symbol was resolved using the shared
library file.)
In this patch I added a boolean flag to FileNode for --as-needed.
I also added an accessor to DSO name to shared library file class.
llvm-svn: 226274
The target may be a synthetic symbol like __ImageBase. cast_or_null will ensure
that the atom is a DefinedAtom, which is not guaranteed, which was the original
reason for the cast_or_null. Switch this to dyn_cast, which should enable
building of executables for WoA. Unfortunately, the issue of missing base
relocations still needs to be investigated.
llvm-svn: 226246
Shankar Easwaran