We discovered (crbug.com/838449#c24) that string tail merging can
negatively affect compressed binary size, so provide a flag to turn
it off for users who care more about compressed size than uncompressed
size.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46780
llvm-svn: 332149
One place where this seems to matter is to make sure the .rsrc section comes
after .text. The Win32 UpdateResource() function can change the contents of
.rsrc. It will move the sections that come after, but if .text gets moved, the
entry point header will not get updated and the executable breaks. This was
found by a test in Chromium.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45260
llvm-svn: 329221
In COFF, duplicate string literals are merged by placing them in a
comdat whose leader symbol name contains a specific prefix followed
by the hash and partial contents of the string literal. This gives
us an easy way to identify sections containing string literals in
the linker: check for leader symbol names with the given prefix.
Any sections that are identified in this way as containing string
literals may be tail merged. We do so using the StringTableBuilder
class, which is also used to tail merge string literals in the ELF
linker. Tail merging is enabled only if ICF is enabled, as this
provides a signal as to whether the user cares about binary size.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44504
llvm-svn: 327668
Peter Collingbourne