Currently, YAML has the following syntax for describing the symbols:
Symbols:
Local:
LocalSymbol1:
...
LocalSymbol2:
...
...
Global:
GlobalSymbol1:
...
Weak:
...
GNUUnique:
I.e. symbols are grouped by their bindings. That is not very convenient,
because:
It does not allow to set a custom binding, what can be useful for producing
broken/special outputs for test cases. Adding a new binding would require to
change a syntax (what we observed when added GNUUnique recently).
It does not allow to change the order of the symbols in .symtab/.dynsym,
i.e. currently all Local symbols are placed first, then Global, Weak and GNUUnique
are following, but we are not able to change the order.
It is not consistent. Binding is just one of the properties of the symbol,
we do not group them by other properties.
It makes the code more complex that it can be. This patch shows it can be simplified
with the change performed.
The patch changes the syntax to just:
Symbols:
Symbol1:
...
Symbol2:
...
...
With that, we are able to work with the binding field just like with any other symbol property.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60122
llvm-svn: 357595
In order to test tool handling of invalid section indexes, I need to
create an object containing such an invalid section index. I could
create a hex-edited binary, but having the ability to use yaml2obj is
preferable. Prior to this change, yaml2obj would reject any explicit
section indexes less than SHN_LORESERVE. This patch changes it to allow
any value.
I had to change the test to use llvm-readelf instead of llvm-readobj,
because llvm-readobj does not like invalid section indexes. I've also
expanded the test to show that the most common SHN_* values are accepted
(SHN_UNDEF, SHN_ABS, SHN_COMMON).
Reviewed by: grimar, jakehehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58445
llvm-svn: 354566
Right now Symbols must be either undefined or defined in a specific
section. Some symbols have section indexes like SHN_ABS however. This
change adds support for outputting symbols that have such section
indexes.
Patch by Jake Ehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37391
llvm-svn: 312745
Fangrui Song