Summary:
This patch adds a ".comment" section to an output. The comment
section contains the linker's version string. You can now
find out whether a binary is created by LLD or not using objdump
command like this.
$ objdump -s -j .comment foo
foo: file format elf64-x86-64
Contents of section .comment:
0000 00474343 3a202855 62756e74 7520342e .GCC: (Ubuntu 4.
0010 382e342d 32756275 6e747531 7e31342e 8.4-2ubuntu1~14.
...
00c0 766d2f74 72756e6b 20323835 38343629 vm/trunk 285846)
00d0 004c696e 6b65723a 204c4c44 20342e30 .Linker: LLD 4.0
00e0 2e302028 7472756e 6b203238 36343036 .0 (trunk 286406
00f0 2900 ).
Compilers emits .comment section as well, so the output contains
both compiler and linker information.
Alternative considered:
I first tried to add a SHT_NOTE section because GNU gold does that.
A NOTE section starts with a header which contains content type.
It turned out that ld.gold sets type NT_GNU_GOLD_VERSION to their
NOTE section. So the NOTE type is only for GNU gold (surprise!)
Next, I tried to create ".linker-version" section. However, it seems
that reusing the existing ".comment" section is better because 1)
other tools already know about .comment section and is able to strip
it and 2) the result contans not only linker info but also compiler
info.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26487
llvm-svn: 286496
-pie
--pic-executable
Create a position independent executable. This is currently only
supported on ELF platforms. Position independent executables are
similar to shared libraries in that they are relocated by the
dynamic linker to the virtual address the OS chooses for them
(which can vary between invocations). Like normal dynamically
linked executables they can be executed and symbols defined in the
executable cannot be overridden by shared libraries.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18183
llvm-svn: 263693
Rui Ueyama