On ELF every section can have a corresponding section symbol. When in
an assembly file we have
.quad .text
the '.text' refers to that symbol.
The way we used to handle them is to leave .text an undefined symbol
until the very end when the object writer would map them to the
actual section symbol.
The problem with that is that anything before the end would see an
undefined symbol. This could result in bad diagnostics
(test/MC/AArch64/label-arithmetic-diags-elf.s), or incorrect results
when using the asm streamer (est/MC/Mips/expansion-jal-sym-pic.s).
Fixing this will also allow using the section symbol earlier for
setting sh_link of SHF_METADATA sections.
This patch includes a few hacks to avoid changing our behaviour when
handling conflicts between section symbols and other symbols. I
reported pr31850 to track that.
llvm-svn: 293936
Allow instructions such as 'cmp w0, #(end - start)' by folding the
expression into a constant. For ELF, we fold only if the symbols are in
the same section. For MachO, we fold if the expression contains only
symbols that are not linker visible.
Fixes https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=18920
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23834
llvm-svn: 283862
Rafael Espindola