GNU ld.bfd supports linking directly against DLLs without using an
import library, and some projects have picked up on this habit.
(There's no one single unsurmountable issue with using import
libraries, but this is a regularly surfacing missing feature.)
As long as one is linking by name (instead of by ordinal), the DLL
export table contains most of the information needed. (One can
inspect what section a symbol points at, to see if it's a function
or data symbol. The practical implementation of this loops over all
sections for each symbol, but as long as they're not very many, that
should hopefully be tolerable performance wise.)
One exception where the information in the DLL isn't entirely enough
is on i386 with stdcall functions; depending on how they're done,
the exported function name can be a plain undecorated name, while
the import library would contain the full decorated symbol name. This
issue is addressed separately in a different patch.
This is implemented mimicing the structure of a regular import library,
with one InputFile corresponding to the static archive that just adds
lazy symbols, which then are fetched when they are needed. When such
a symbol is fetched, we synthesize a coff_import_header structure
in memory and create a regular ImportFile out of it.
The implementation could be even smaller by just creating ImportFiles
for every symbol available immediately, but that would have the
drawback of actually ending up importing all symbols unless running
with GC enabled (and mingw mode defaults to having it disabled for
historical reasons).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104530
This patch adds support for creating Guard Address-Taken IAT Entry Tables (.giats$y sections) in object files, matching the behavior of MSVC. These contain lists of address-taken imported functions, which are used by the linker to create the final GIATS table.
Additionally, if any DLLs are delay-loaded, the linker must look through the .giats tables and add the respective load thunks of address-taken imports to the GFIDS table, as these are also valid call targets.
Reviewed By: rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87544
This broke both Firefox and Chromium (PR47905) due to what seems like dllimport
function not being handled correctly.
> This patch adds support for creating Guard Address-Taken IAT Entry Tables (.giats$y sections) in object files, matching the behavior of MSVC. These contain lists of address-taken imported functions, which are used by the linker to create the final GIATS table.
> Additionally, if any DLLs are delay-loaded, the linker must look through the .giats tables and add the respective load thunks of address-taken imports to the GFIDS table, as these are also valid call targets.
>
> Reviewed By: rnk
>
> Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87544
This reverts commit cfd8481da1.
Add a simple forwarding option in the MinGW frontend, and implement
the private -wrap option in the COFF linker.
The feature in lld-link isn't gated by the -lldmingw option, but
the option is left as a private, undocumented option primarily
used by the MinGW driver.
The implementation is significantly based on the support for --wrap
in the ELF linker, but many small nuance details are different
between the ELF and COFF linkers, ending up with more than a few
implementation differences.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47384.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89004
Reapplied with the bitfield member canInline fixed so it doesn't break
builds targeting windows.
This reverts commit a012c704b5.
Breaks Windows builds.
C:\src\llvm-mint\lld\COFF\Symbols.cpp(26,1): error: static_assert failed due to requirement 'sizeof(lld::coff::SymbolUnion) <= 48' "symbols should be optimized for memory usage"
static_assert(sizeof(SymbolUnion) <= 48,
Add a simple forwarding option in the MinGW frontend, and implement
the private -wrap option in the COFF linker.
The feature in lld-link isn't gated by the -lldmingw option, but
the option is left as a private, undocumented option primarily
used by the MinGW driver.
The implementation is significantly based on the support for --wrap
in the ELF linker, but many small nuance details are different
between the ELF and COFF linkers, ending up with more than a few
implementation differences.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=47384.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89004
This patch adds support for creating Guard Address-Taken IAT Entry Tables (.giats$y sections) in object files, matching the behavior of MSVC. These contain lists of address-taken imported functions, which are used by the linker to create the final GIATS table.
Additionally, if any DLLs are delay-loaded, the linker must look through the .giats tables and add the respective load thunks of address-taken imports to the GFIDS table, as these are also valid call targets.
Reviewed By: rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87544
This patch adds support for creating Guard Address-Taken IAT Entry Tables (.giats$y sections) in object files, matching the behavior of MSVC. These contain lists of address-taken imported functions, which are used by the linker to create the final GIATS table.
Additionally, if any DLLs are delay-loaded, the linker must look through the .giats tables and add the respective load thunks of address-taken imports to the GFIDS table, as these are also valid call targets.
Reviewed By: rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87544
Both MS link.exe and GNU ld.bfd handle it this way; one can have
multiple object files defining the same absolute symbols, as long
as it defines it to the same value. But if there are multiple absolute
symbols with differing values, it is treated as an error.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71981
Summary:
This is a re-land of r370487 with a fix for the use-after-free bug
that rev contained.
This implements -start-lib and -end-lib flags for lld-link, analogous
to the similarly named options in ld.lld. Object files after
-start-lib are included in the link only when needed to resolve
undefined symbols. The -end-lib flag goes back to the normal behavior
of always including object files in the link. This mimics the
semantics of static libraries, but without needing to actually create
the archive file.
Reviewers: ruiu, smeenai, MaskRay
Reviewed By: ruiu, MaskRay
Subscribers: akhuang, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66848
llvm-svn: 370816
Summary:
This implements -start-lib and -end-lib flags for lld-link, analogous
to the similarly named options in ld.lld. Object files after
-start-lib are included in the link only when needed to resolve
undefined symbols. The -end-lib flag goes back to the normal behavior
of always including object files in the link. This mimics the
semantics of static libraries, but without needing to actually create
the archive file.
Reviewers: ruiu, smeenai, MaskRay
Reviewed By: ruiu, MaskRay
Subscribers: akhuang, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D66848
llvm-svn: 370487
This ports r366573 from COFF to ELF.
There are now to toString(Archive::Symbol), one doing MSVC demangling
in COFF and one doing Itanium demangling in ELF, so rename these two
to toCOFFString() and to toELFString() to not get a duplicate symbol.
Nothing ever passes a raw Archive::Symbol to CHECK(), so these not
being part of the normal toString() machinery seems ok.
There are two code paths in the ELF linker that emits this type of
diagnostic:
1. The "normal" one in InputFiles.cpp. This is covered by the tweaked test.
2. An additional one that's only used for libcalls if there's at least
one bitcode in the link, and if the libcall symbol is lazy, and
lazily loaded from an archive (i.e. not from a lazy .o file).
(This code path was added in r339301.) Since all libcall names so far
are C symbols and never mangled, the change there is not observable
and hence not covered by tests.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65095
llvm-svn: 366836
Also add test coverage for thin archives (which are the only way I could
come up with to test at least some of the diagnostic changes).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64927
llvm-svn: 366573
This patch does the same thing as r365595 to other subdirectories,
which completes the naming style change for the entire lld directory.
With this, the naming style conversion is complete for lld.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D64473
llvm-svn: 365730
Summary:
This assumes all symbols are <4GB long, so we can store them as a 32-bit
integer. This reorders the fields so the length appears first, packing
with the other bitfield data in the base Symbol object.
This saved 70MB / 3.60% of heap allocations when linking
browser_tests.exe with no PDB. It's not much as a percentage, but worth
doing. I didn't do performance measurements, I don't think it will be
measurable in time.
Reviewers: ruiu, inglorion, amccarth, aganea
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60297
llvm-svn: 358794
to reflect the new license.
We understand that people may be surprised that we're moving the header
entirely to discuss the new license. We checked this carefully with the
Foundation's lawyer and we believe this is the correct approach.
Essentially, all code in the project is now made available by the LLVM
project under our new license, so you will see that the license headers
include that license only. Some of our contributors have contributed
code under our old license, and accordingly, we have retained a copy of
our old license notice in the top-level files in each project and
repository.
llvm-svn: 351636
Changes a few things I noticed while reading this code.
- fix a few typos in comments
- remove two `auto` uses where the type wasn't clear to me
- add comment saying that two sequential checks for `if (SparseChunks[SectionNumber] == PendingComdat)` are intentional
- name two parameters
No behavior change.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D56677
llvm-svn: 351101
Don't assume that the IAT chunk will be a DefinedImportData, it can
just as well be a DefinedRegular for gnu import libraries.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52381
llvm-svn: 343069
Normally, in order to reference exported data symbols from a different
DLL, the declarations need to have the dllimport attribute, in order to
use the __imp_<var> symbol (which contains an address to the actual
variable) instead of the variable itself directly. This isn't an issue
in the same way for functions, since any reference to the function without
the dllimport attribute will end up as a reference to a thunk which loads
the actual target function from the import address table (IAT).
GNU ld, in MinGW environments, supports automatically importing data
symbols from DLLs, even if the references didn't have the appropriate
dllimport attribute. Since the PE/COFF format doesn't support the kind
of relocations that this would require, the MinGW's CRT startup code
has an custom framework of their own for manually fixing the missing
relocations once module is loaded and the target addresses in the IAT
are known.
For this to work, the linker (originall in GNU ld) creates a list of
remaining references needing fixup, which the runtime processes on
startup before handing over control to user code.
While this feature is rather controversial, it's one of the main features
allowing unix style libraries to be used on windows without any extra
porting effort.
Some sort of automatic fixing of data imports is also necessary for the
itanium C++ ABI on windows (as clang implements it right now) for importing
vtable pointers in certain cases, see D43184 for some discussion on that.
The runtime pseudo relocation handler supports 8/16/32/64 bit addresses,
either PC relative references (like IMAGE_REL_*_REL32*) or absolute
references (IMAGE_REL_AMD64_ADDR32, IMAGE_REL_AMD64_ADDR32,
IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR32). On linking, the relocation is handled as a
relocation against the corresponding IAT slot. For the absolute references,
a normal base relocation is created, to update the embedded address
in case the image is loaded at a different address.
The list of runtime pseudo relocations contains the RVA of the
imported symbol (the IAT slot), the RVA of the location the relocation
should be applied to, and a size of the memory location. When the
relocations are fixed at runtime, the difference between the actual
IAT slot value and the IAT slot address is added to the reference,
doing the right thing for both absolute and relative references.
With this patch alone, things work fine for i386 binaries, and mostly
for x86_64 binaries, with feature parity with GNU ld. Despite this,
there are a few gotchas:
- References to data from within code works fine on both x86 architectures,
since their relocations consist of plain 32 or 64 bit absolute/relative
references. On ARM and AArch64, references to data doesn't consist of
a plain 32 or 64 bit embedded address or offset in the code. On ARMNT,
it's usually a MOVW+MOVT instruction pair represented by a
IMAGE_REL_ARM_MOV32T relocation, each instruction containing 16 bit of
the target address), on AArch64, it's usually an ADRP+ADD/LDR/STR
instruction pair with an even more complex encoding, storing a PC
relative address (with a range of +/- 4 GB). This could theoretically
be remedied by extending the runtime pseudo relocation handler with new
relocation types, to support these instruction encodings. This isn't an
issue for GCC/GNU ld since they don't support windows on ARMNT/AArch64.
- For x86_64, if references in code are encoded as 32 bit PC relative
offsets, the runtime relocation will fail if the target turns out to be
out of range for a 32 bit offset.
- Fixing up the relocations at runtime requires making sections writable
if necessary, with the VirtualProtect function. In Windows Store/UWP apps,
this function is forbidden.
These limitations are addressed by a few later patches in lld and
llvm.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D50917
llvm-svn: 340726
This adds an extra level of static safety to our use of placement
new to allocate Symbol types. It prevents the accidental addition
on a non-trivially-destructible member that could allocate and
leak memory.
From the spec: Storage occupied by trivially destructible objects
may be reused without calling the destructor.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43244
llvm-svn: 325025
If /debug was not specified, readSection will return a null
pointer for debug sections. If the debug section is associative with
another section, we need to make sure that the section returned from
readSection is not a null pointer before adding it as an associative
section.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40533
llvm-svn: 319133
With this change, instead of creating a SectionChunk for each section
in the object file, we only create them when we encounter a prevailing
comdat section.
Also change how symbol resolution occurs between comdat symbols. Now
only the comdat leader participates in comdat resolution, and not any
other external associated symbols. This is more in line with how COFF
semantics are defined, and should allow for a more straightforward
implementation of non-ANY comdat types.
On my machine, this change reduces our runtime linking a release
build of chrome_child.dll with /nopdb from 5.65s to 4.54s (median of
50 runs).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40238
llvm-svn: 319090
This effectively reverts r318548 and r318635 while keeping the
functionality behind the flag and preserving the bug fix from r318548.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40264
llvm-svn: 318721
For GC roots, add a bit to SymbolBody to ensure that we don't add the
same root twice, and switch to a vector. In addition to being faster,
this may also fix some latent non-determinism. We iterate the GCRoot
list later and it the order should be deterministic.
For fixupExports, we can just use DenseMap. This is a simple string
uniquing task, and we don't iterate the map.
Reviewers: ruiu
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39609
llvm-svn: 318072
Now that we have only SymbolBody as the symbol class. So, "SymbolBody"
is a bit strange name now. This is a mechanical change generated by
perl -i -pe s/SymbolBody/Symbol/g $(git grep -l SymbolBody lld/ELF lld/COFF)
nd clang-format-diff.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39459
llvm-svn: 317370
New lld's files are spread under lib subdirectory, and it isn't easy
to find which files are actually maintained. This patch moves maintained
files to Common subdirectory.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D37645
llvm-svn: 314719
These are emitted for comm symbols in object files, when targeting
a GNU environment.
Alternatively, just ignore them since we already align CommonChunk
to the natural size of the content (up to 32 bytes). That would only
trade away the possibility to overalign small symbols, which doesn't
sound like something that might not need to be handled?
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36304
llvm-svn: 310871
Summary:
MSVC link.exe records all external symbol names in the publics stream.
It provides similar functionality to an ELF .symtab.
Reviewers: zturner, ruiu
Subscribers: hiraditya, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35871
llvm-svn: 309303
Summary:
In order to do this without switching on the symbol kind multiple times,
I created Defined::getChunkAndOffset and use that instead of
SymbolBody::getRVA in the inner relocation loop.
Now we get the symbol's chunk before switching over relocation types, so
we can test if it has been discarded outside the inner relocation type
switch. This also simplifies application of section relative
relocations. Previously we would switch on symbol kind to compute the
RVA, then the relocation type, and then the symbol kind again to get the
output section so we could subtract that from the symbol RVA. Now we
*always* have an OutputSection, so applying SECREL and SECTION
relocations isn't as much of a special case.
I'm still not quite happy with the cleanliness of this code. I'm not
sure what offsets and bases we should be using during the relocation
processing loop: VA, RVA, or OutputSectionOffset.
Reviewers: ruiu, pcc
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: majnemer, inglorion, llvm-commits, aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34650
llvm-svn: 306566
Summary:
They do the obvious thing: provide the section index of .bss and the
offset of the symbol in .bss.
Reviewers: ruiu
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34628
llvm-svn: 306304
Summary:
The main change is that we can have SECREL and SECTION relocations
against ___safe_se_handler_table, which is important for handling the
debug info in the MSVCRT.
Previously we were using DefinedRelative for __safe_se_handler_table and
__ImageBase, and after we implement CFGuard, we plan to extend it to
handle __guard_fids_table, __guard_longjmp_table, and more. However,
DefinedRelative is really only suitable for implementing __ImageBase,
because it lacks a Chunk, which you need in order to figure out the
output section index and output section offset when resolving SECREl and
SECTION relocations.
This change renames DefinedRelative to DefinedSynthetic and gives it a
Chunk. One wart is that __ImageBase doesn't have a chunk. It points to
the PE header, effectively. We could split DefinedRelative and
DefinedSynthetic if we think that's cleaner and creates fewer special
cases.
I also added safeseh.s, which checks that we don't emit a safe seh table
entries pointing to garbage collected handlers and that we don't emit a
table at all when there are no handlers.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: inglorion, pcc, llvm-commits, aprantl
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34577
llvm-svn: 306293
Martin Storsjö