The main motivation for this refactor is to remove the subclass
relationship between the InputSegment and MergeInputSegment and
SyntenticMergedInputSegment so that we can use the merging classes for
debug sections which are not data segments.
In the process of refactoring I also remove all the virtual functions
from the class hierarchy and try to reuse techniques used in the ELF
linker (see `lld/ELF/InputSections.h`).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102546
This change was originally landed in: 5000a1b4b9
It was reverted in: 061e071d8c
This change adds support for a new WASM_SEG_FLAG_STRINGS flag in
the object format which works in a similar fashion to SHF_STRINGS
in the ELF world.
Unlike the ELF linker this support is currently limited:
- No support for SHF_MERGE (non-string merging)
- Always do full tail merging ("lo" can be merged with "hello")
- Only support single byte strings (p2align 0)
Like the ELF linker merging is only performed at `-O1` and above.
This fixes part of https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48828,
although crucially it doesn't not currently support debug sections
because they are not represented by data segments (they are custom
sections)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97657
This change adds support for a new WASM_SEG_FLAG_STRINGS flag in
the object format which works in a similar fashion to SHF_STRINGS
in the ELF world.
Unlike the ELF linker this support is currently limited:
- No support for SHF_MERGE (non-string merging)
- Always do full tail merging ("lo" can be merged with "hello")
- Only support single byte strings (p2align 0)
Like the ELF linker merging is only performed at `-O1` and above.
This fixes part of https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48828,
although crucially it doesn't not currently support debug sections
because they are not represented by data segments (they are custom
sections)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97657
Sam Clegg