When processing assembly like
.long .text
we were creating a new undefined symbol .text. GAS on the other hand would
handle that as a reference to the .text section.
This patch implements that by creating the section symbols earlier so that
they are visible during asm parsing.
The patch also updates llvm-readobj to print the symbol number in the relocation
dump so that the test can differentiate between two sections with the same name.
llvm-svn: 219829
As discussed in a previous checking to support the .localentry
directive on PowerPC, we need to inspect the actual target symbol
in needsRelocateWithSymbol to make the appropriate decision based
on that symbol's st_other bits.
Currently, needsRelocateWithSymbol does not get the target symbol.
However, it is directly available to its sole caller. This patch
therefore simply extends the needsRelocateWithSymbol by a new
parameter "const MCSymbolData &SD", passes in the target symbol,
and updates all derived implementations.
In particular, in the PowerPC implementation, this patch removes
the FIXME added by the previous checkin.
llvm-svn: 213487
Now that we have a lib/MC/MCAnalysis, the dependency was there just because
of two helper classes. Move the two over to MC.
This will allow IRObjectFile to parse inline assembly.
llvm-svn: 212248
The fix itself is fairly simple: move getAccessVariant to MCValue so that we
replace the old weak expression evaluation with the far more general
EvaluateAsRelocatable.
This then requires that EvaluateAsRelocatable stop when it finds a non
trivial reference kind. And that in turn requires the ELF writer to look
harder for weak references.
Last but not least, this found a case where we were being bug by bug
compatible with gas and accepting an invalid input. I reported pr19647
to track it.
llvm-svn: 207920
We already do this for shstrtab, so might as well do it for strtab. This
extracts the string table building code into a separate class. The idea
is to use it for other object formats too.
I mostly wanted to do this for the general principle, but it does save a
little bit on object file size. I tried this on a clang bootstrap and
saved 0.54% on the sum of object file sizes (1.14 MB out of 212 MB for
a release build).
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3533
llvm-svn: 207670
This patch centralizes the handling of the thumb bit around
MCStreamer::isThumbFunc and makes isThumbFunc handle aliases.
This fixes a corner case, but the main advantage is having just one
way to check if a MCSymbol is thumb or not. This should still be
refactored to be ARM only, but at least now it is just one predicate
that has to be refactored instead of 3 (isThumbFunc,
ELF_Other_ThumbFunc, and SF_ThumbFunc).
llvm-svn: 207522
When evaluating an assembly expression for a relocation, we want to
stop at MCSymbols that are in the symbol table, even if they are variables.
This is needed since the semantics may require that the relocation use them.
That is not the case when computing the value of a symbol in the symbol table.
There are no relocations in this case and we have to keep going until we hit
a section or find out that the expression doesn't have an assembly time
value.
llvm-svn: 207445
The symbol table itself has no relocations, so it is not possible to represent
things like
a = undefined + 1
With the patch we just omit these variables. That matches the behaviour of the
gnu assembler.
llvm-svn: 207419
When fixing the symbols in each compressed section we were iterating
over all symbols for each compressed section. In extreme cases this
could snowball severely (5min uncompressed -> 35min compressed) due to
iterating over all symbols for each compressed section (large numbers of
compressed sections can be generated by DWARF type units).
To address this, build a map of the symbols in each section ahead of
time, and access that map if a section is being compressed. This brings
compile time for the aforementioned example down to ~6 minutes.
llvm-svn: 207167
I discovered this const-hole while attempting to coalesnce the Symbol
and SymbolMap data structures. There's some pending issues with that,
but I figured this change was easy to flush early.
llvm-svn: 207124
Both ZLIB and the debug info compressed section header ("ZLIB" + the
size of the uncompressed data) take some constant overhead so in some
cases the compressed data is actually larger than the uncompressed data.
In these cases, just don't compress or rename the section at all.
llvm-svn: 206659
While unnamed relocations are already cached in side tables in
ELFObjectWriter::RecordRelocation, symbols still need their fragments
updated to refer to the newly compressed fragment (even if that fragment
isn't big enough to fit the offset). Even though we only create
temporary symbols in debug info sections this comes up in 32 bit builds
where even temporary symbols in mergeable sections (such as debug_str)
have to be emitted as named symbols.
I tried a few other ways to do this but they all didn't work for various
reasons:
1) Canonicalize the MCSymbolData in RecordRelocation, nulling out the
Fragment (so it didn't have to be updated by CompressDebugSection). This
doesn't work because some code relies on symbols having fragments to
indicate that they're defined, I think.
2) Canonicalize the MCSymbolData in RecordRelocation to be "first
fragment + absolute offset" so it would be cheaper to just test and
update the fragment in CompressDebugSections. This doesn't work because
the offset computed in RecordRelocation isn't that of the symbol's
fragment, it's the passed in fragment (I haven't figured out what that
fragment is - perhaps it's the location where the relocation is to be
written). And if the fragment offset has to be computed only for this
use we might as well just do it when we need to, in
CompressDebugSection.
I also added an assert to help catch this a bit more clearly, even
though it is UB. The test case improvements would either assert fail
and/or valgrind vail without the fix, even if they wouldn't necessarily
fail the FileCheck output.
llvm-svn: 206653
To support compressing the debug_line section that contains multiple
fragments (due, I believe, to variation in choices of line table
encoding depending on the size of instruction ranges in the actual
program code) we needed to support compressing multiple MCFragments in a
single pass.
This patch implements that behavior by mutating the post-relaxed and
relocated section to be the compressed form of its former self,
including renaming the section.
This is a more flexible (and less invasive, to a degree) implementation
that will allow for other features such as "use compression only if it's
smaller than the uncompressed data".
Compressing debug_frame would be a possible further extension to this
work, but I've left it for now. The hurdle there is alignment sections -
which might require going as far as to refactor
MCAssembler.cpp:writeFragment to handle writing to a byte buffer or an
MCObjectWriter (there's already a virtual call there, so it shouldn't
add substantial compile-time cost) which could in turn involve
refactoring MCAsmBackend::writeNopData to use that same abstraction...
which involves touching all the backends. This would remove the limited
handling of fragment writing seen in
ELFObjectWriter.cpp:getUncompressedData which would be nice - but it's
more invasive.
I did discover that I (perhaps obviously) don't need to handle
relocations when I rewrite the fragments - since the relocations have
already been applied and computed (and stored into
ELFObjectWriter::Relocations) by this stage (necessarily, because we
need to have written any immediate values or assembly-time relocations
into the data already before we compress it, which we have). The test
case doesn't necessarily cover that in detail - I can add more test
coverage if that's preferred.
llvm-svn: 205990
I started trying to fix a small issue, but this code has seen a small fix too
many.
The old code was fairly convoluted. Some of the issues it had:
* It failed to check if a symbol difference was in the some section when
converting a relocation to pcrel.
* It failed to check if the relocation was already pcrel.
* The pcrel value computation was wrong in some cases (relocation-pc.s)
* It was missing quiet a few cases where it should not convert symbol
relocations to section relocations, leaving the backends to patch it up.
* It would not propagate the fact that it had changed a relocation to pcrel,
requiring a quiet nasty work around in ARM.
* It was missing comments.
llvm-svn: 205076
We need .symtab_shndxr if and only if a symbol references a section with an
index >= 0xff00.
The old code was trying to figure out if the section was needed ahead of time,
making it a fairly dependent on the code actually writing the table. It was
also somewhat conservative and would create the section in cases where it was
not needed.
If I remember correctly, the old structure was there so that the sections were
created in the same order gas creates them. That was valuable when MC's support
for ELF was new and we tested with elf-dump.py.
This patch refactors the symbol table creation to another class and makes it
obvious that .symtab_shndxr is really only created when we are about to output
a reference to a section index >= 0xff00.
While here, also improve the tests to use macros. One file is one section
short of needing .symtab_shndxr, the second one has just the right number.
llvm-svn: 204769
This is similar, but not identical to what gas does. The logic in MC is to just
compute the symbol table after parsing the entire file. GAS is mixed, given
.type b, @object
a = b
b:
.type b, @function
It will propagate the change and make 'a' a function. Given
.type b, @object
b:
a = b
.type b, @function
the type of 'a' is still object.
Since we do the computation in the end, we produce a function in both cases.
llvm-svn: 204555
Given
bar = foo + 4
.long bar
MC would eat the 4. GNU as includes it in the relocation. The rule seems to be
that a variable that defines a symbol is used in the relocation and one that
does not define a symbol is evaluated and the result included in the relocation.
Fixing this unfortunately required some other changes:
* Since the variable is now evaluated, it would prevent the ELF writer from
noticing the weakref marker the elf streamer uses. This patch then replaces
that with a VariantKind in MCSymbolRefExpr.
* Using VariantKind then requires us to look past other VariantKind to see
.weakref bar,foo
call bar@PLT
doing this also fixes
zed = foo +2
call zed@PLT
so that is a good thing.
* Looking past VariantKind means that the relocation selection has to use
the fixup instead of the target.
This is a reboot of the previous fixes for MC. I will watch the sanitizer
buildbot and wait for a build before adding back the previous fixes.
llvm-svn: 204294
The revision I'm reverting breaks handling of transitive aliases. This blocks us
and breaks sanitizer bootstrap:
http://lab.llvm.org:8011/builders/sanitizer-x86_64-linux-bootstrap/builds/2651
(and checked locally by Alexey).
This revision is the result of:
svn merge -r204059:204058 -r204028:204027 -r203962:203961 .
+ the regression test added to test/MC/ELF/alias.s
Another way to reproduce the regression with clang:
$ cat q.c
void a1();
void a2() __attribute__((alias("a1")));
void a3() __attribute__((alias("a2")));
void a1() {}
$ ~/work/llvm-build/bin/clang-3.5-good -c q.c && mv q.o good.o && \
~/work/llvm-build/bin/clang-3.5-bad -c q.c && mv q.o bad.o && \
objdump -t good.o bad.o
good.o: file format elf64-x86-64
SYMBOL TABLE:
0000000000000000 l df *ABS* 0000000000000000 q.c
0000000000000000 l d .text 0000000000000000 .text
0000000000000000 l d .data 0000000000000000 .data
0000000000000000 l d .bss 0000000000000000 .bss
0000000000000000 l d .comment 0000000000000000 .comment
0000000000000000 l d .note.GNU-stack 0000000000000000 .note.GNU-stack
0000000000000000 l d .eh_frame 0000000000000000 .eh_frame
0000000000000000 g F .text 0000000000000006 a1
0000000000000000 g F .text 0000000000000006 a2
0000000000000000 g F .text 0000000000000006 a3
bad.o: file format elf64-x86-64
SYMBOL TABLE:
0000000000000000 l df *ABS* 0000000000000000 q.c
0000000000000000 l d .text 0000000000000000 .text
0000000000000000 l d .data 0000000000000000 .data
0000000000000000 l d .bss 0000000000000000 .bss
0000000000000000 l d .comment 0000000000000000 .comment
0000000000000000 l d .note.GNU-stack 0000000000000000 .note.GNU-stack
0000000000000000 l d .eh_frame 0000000000000000 .eh_frame
0000000000000000 g F .text 0000000000000006 a1
0000000000000000 g F .text 0000000000000006 a2
0000000000000000 g .text 0000000000000000 a3
llvm-svn: 204137
This performs the equivalent of a .set directive in that it creates a symbol
which is an alias for another symbol or value which may possibly be yet
undefined. This directive also has the added property in that it marks the
aliased symbol as being a thumb function entry point, in the same way that the
.thumb_func directive does.
The current implementation fails one test due to an unrelated issue. Functions
within .thumb sections are not marked as thumb_func. The result is that
the aliasee function is not valued correctly.
llvm-svn: 204059
This is really a consistency fix. Since given
a = b
we propagate the information, we should propagate it too given
a = b + (1 - 1)
Fixes pr19145.
llvm-svn: 204028
This compiles with no changes to clang/lld/lldb with MSVC and includes
overloads to various functions which are used by those projects and llvm
which have OwningPtr's as parameters. This should allow out of tree
projects some time to move. There are also no changes to libs/Target,
which should help out of tree targets have time to move, if necessary.
llvm-svn: 203083
This is a nop. doesSectionRequireSymbols is only used from
isSymbolLinkerVisible. isSymbolLinkerVisible only use from ELF was in
if (!Asm.isSymbolLinkerVisible(Symbol) && !Symbol.isUndefined())
return false;
if (Symbol.isTemporary())
return false;
If the symbol is a temporary this code returns false and it is irrelevant if
we take the first if or not. If the symbol is not a temporary,
Asm.isSymbolLinkerVisible returns true without ever calling
doesSectionRequireSymbols.
This was an horrible leftover from when support for ELF was first added.
llvm-svn: 200894
take type from the new symbol but merge them so that the type
is never "downgraded".
This is probably quite rare, except for IFUNC symbols which
we used to misassemble, losing the IFUNC type.
Fixes#18372.
llvm-svn: 198706
ELF_Other_Weakref and ELF_Other_ThumbFunc seems to be LLVM
internal ELF symbol flags. These should not be emitted to
object file.
This commit defines ELF_STO_Shift for the target-defined
flags for st_other, and increase the value of
ELF_Other_Shift to 16.
llvm-svn: 196440
This makes using array_pod_sort significantly safer. The implementation relies
on function pointer casting but that should be safe as we're dealing with void*
here.
llvm-svn: 191175
Patch from Игорь Пашев (I do hope we support utf-8 commit messages; I
also hope he'll forgive me for transliterating it as Igor Pashev in
case things go horribly wrong).
llvm-svn: 186034
Now that PowerPC no longer uses adjustFixupOffset, and no other
back-end (ever?) did, we can remove the infrastructure itself
(incidentally addressing a FIXME to that effect).
llvm-svn: 181895
excluding visibility bits.
Generic STO handling at the Target level.
The st_other field of the ELF symbol table is one
byte in size. The first 2 bytes are used for generic
visibility and are currently handled by llvm.
The other six bits are processor specific and need
to be set at the target level.
A couple of notes:
The new static methods for accessing and setting the "other"
flags in include/llvm/MC/MCELF.h match the style guide
and not the other methods in the file. I don't like the
inconsistency, but feel I should follow the prescribed
lowerUpper() convention.
STO_ value definitions are not specified in gnu land as
consistently as the STT_ and STB_ fields. Probably because
the latter were defined in a standards doc and the former
defined partially in code. I have stuck with the full byte
definition of the flags.
Contributer: Zoran Jovanovic
llvm-svn: 175561
and update ELF header e_flags.
Currently gathering information such as symbol,
section and data is done by collecting it in an
MCAssembler object. From MCAssembler and MCAsmLayout
objects ELFObjectWriter::WriteObject() forms and
streams out the ELF object file.
This patch just adds a few members to the MCAssember
class to store and access the e_flag settings. It
allows for runtime additions to the e_flag by
assembler directives. The standalone assembler can
get to MCAssembler from getParser().getStreamer().getAssembler().
This patch is the generic infrastructure and will be
followed by patches for ARM and Mips for their target
specific use.
Contributer: Jack Carter
llvm-svn: 173882
but I cannot reproduce the problem and have scrubed my sources and
even tested with llvm-lit -v --vg.
Support for Mips register information sections.
Mips ELF object files have a section that is dedicated
to register use info. Some of this information such as
the assumed Global Pointer value is used by the linker
in relocation resolution.
The register info file is .reginfo in o32 and .MIPS.options
in 64 and n32 abi files.
This patch contains the changes needed to create the sections,
but leaves the actual register accounting for a future patch.
Contributer: Jack Carter
llvm-svn: 172847
SmallString. This makes it possible to use the length-erased SmallVectorImpl
in the interface without imposing buffer size. Thus, the size of MCInstFragment
is back down since a preallocated 8-byte contents buffer is enough.
It would be generally a good idea to rid all the fragments of SmallString as
contents, because a vector just makes more sense.
llvm-svn: 169644
Before this patch, when you objdump an LLVM-compiled file, objdump tried to
decode data-in-code sections as if they were code. This patch adds the missing
Mapping Symbols, as defined by "ELF for the ARM Architecture" (ARM IHI 0044D).
Patch based on work by Greg Fitzgerald.
llvm-svn: 169609
Sooooo many of these had incorrect or strange main module includes.
I have manually inspected all of these, and fixed the main module
include to be the nearest plausible thing I could find. If you own or
care about any of these source files, I encourage you to take some time
and check that these edits were sensible. I can't have broken anything
(I strictly added headers, and reordered them, never removed), but they
may not be the headers you'd really like to identify as containing the
API being implemented.
Many forward declarations and missing includes were added to a header
files to allow them to parse cleanly when included first. The main
module rule does in fact have its merits. =]
llvm-svn: 169131
This patch adds initial PPC64 TOC MC object creation using the small mcmodel
(a single 64K TOC) adding the some TOC relocations (R_PPC64_TOC,
R_PPC64_TOC16, and R_PPC64_TOC16DS).
The addition of 'undefinedExplicitRelSym' hook on 'MCELFObjectTargetWriter'
is meant to avoid the creation of an unreferenced ".TOC." symbol (used in
the .odp creation) as well to set the R_PPC64_TOC relocation target as the
temporary ".TOC." symbol. On PPC64 ABI, the R_PPC64_TOC relocation should
not point to any symbol.
llvm-svn: 166677
which many Mips 64 ABIs use than for O64 which many
if not all other target ABIs use.
Most architectures have the following 64 bit relocation record format:
typedef struct
{
Elf64_Addr r_offset; /* Address of reference */
Elf64_Xword r_info; /* Symbol index and type of relocation */
} Elf64_Rel;
typedef struct
{
Elf64_Addr r_offset;
Elf64_Xword r_info;
Elf64_Sxword r_addend;
} Elf64_Rela;
Whereas N64 has the following format:
typedef struct
{
Elf64_Addr r_offset;/* Address of reference */
Elf64_Word r_sym; /* Symbol index */
Elf64_Byte r_ssym; /* Special symbol */
Elf64_Byte r_type3; /* Relocation type */
Elf64_Byte r_type2; /* Relocation type */
Elf64_Byte r_type; /* Relocation type */
} Elf64_Rel;
typedef struct
{
Elf64_Addr r_offset;/* Address of reference */
Elf64_Word r_sym; /* Symbol index */
Elf64_Byte r_ssym; /* Special symbol */
Elf64_Byte r_type3; /* Relocation type */
Elf64_Byte r_type2; /* Relocation type */
Elf64_Byte r_type; /* Relocation type */
Elf64_Sxword r_addend;
} Elf64_Rela;
The structure is the same size, but the r_info data element
is now 5 separate elements. Besides the content aspects,
endian byte reordering will be different for the area with
each element being endianized separately.
I treat this as generic and continue to pass r_type as
an integer masking and unmasking the byte sized N64
values for N64 mode. I've implemented this and it causes no
affect on other current targets.
This passes make check.
Jack
llvm-svn: 159299
test cases where there were a lot of relocations applied relative to a large
rodata section. Gas would create a symbol for each of these whereas we would
be relative to the beginning of the rodata section. This change mimics what
gas does.
Patch by Jack Carter.
llvm-svn: 146468
This is meant to be overriden by backends. Implement an override on PowerPC
which adjusts the offset by 2 for ha16/lo16 relocation kinds. This removes
a commented out hack and enables hello world to be compiled on PowerPC.
llvm-svn: 136905
VK_GOTOFF reloc. This matches as' behavior, but it is not clear why the linker
might need this, so I added a FIXME.
I could test this by duplicating test/MC/ELF/got.s, but it doesn't look
worthwhile.
llvm-svn: 132655
("T is 1 if the target symbol S has type STT_FUNC and the
symbol addresses a Thumb instruction ;it is 0 otherwise."
from "ELF for the ARM Architecture" 4.7.1.2)
Patch by Koan-Sin Tan!
llvm-svn: 131406
LLVM and binutils.
With this patch, there are no functional differences between the .o
produced directly from LLVM versus the .s to .o via GNU as, for relocation tags
at least, for both PIC and non-PIC modes.
Because some non-PIC reloc tags are used (legally) on PIC, so IsPCRel flag is
necessary but not sufficient to determine whether the overall codegen mode is
PIC or not. Why is this necessary? There is an incompatibility of how relocs
are emitted in the .rodata section. Binutils PIC likes to emit certain relocs
as section relative offsets. Non-PIC does not do this.
So I added a hidden switch on the ELFObjectwriter "-arm-elf-force-pic" which
forces the objectwriter to pretend that all relocs are for PIC mode.
Todo: Activate ForceARMElfPIC to true if -relocation-model=pic is selected
on llc.
Todo: There are probably more issues for PIC mode on ARM/MC/ELF...
Todo: Existing tests in MC/ARM/elf-reloc*.ll need to be converted over to .s
tests as well as expanded to cover the gamut.
llvm-svn: 131205
for all symbol differences and can drop the old EmitPCRelSymbolValue
method.
This also make getExprForFDESymbol on ELF equal to the one on MachO, and it
can be made non-virtual.
llvm-svn: 130634
for calls to weak symbols with a definition has the appearance of working
with LLVM-generated code because weak symbol definitions are put in their
own sections.
llvm-svn: 126933
failures with relocations.
The code committed is a first cut at compatibility for emitted relocations in
ELF .o.
Why do this? because existing ARM tools like emitting relocs symbols as
explicit relocations, not as section-offset relocs.
Result is that with these changes,
1) relocs are now substantially identical what to gcc outputs.
2) larger apps (including many spec2k tests) compile, cross-link, and pass
Added reminder fixme to tests for future conversion to .s form.
llvm-svn: 124996
(yes, this is different from R_ARM_CALL)
- Adds a new method getARMBranchTargetOpValue() which handles the
necessary distinction between the conditional and unconditional br/bl
needed for ARM/ELF
At least for ARM mode, the needed fixup for conditional versus unconditional
br/bl is identical, but the ARM docs and existing ARM tools expect this
reloc type...
Added a few FIXME's for future naming fixups in ARMInstrInfo.td
llvm-svn: 124895
- Fixed :upper16: fix up routine. It should be shifting down the top 16 bits first.
- Added support for Thumb2 :lower16: and :upper16: fix up.
- Added :upper16: and :lower16: relocation support to mach-o object writer.
llvm-svn: 123424
R_ARM_MOVT_PREL and R_ARM_MOVW_PREL_NC.
2. Fix minor bug in ARMAsmPrinter - treat bitfield flag as a bitfield, not an enum.
3. Add support for 3 new elf section types (no-ops)
llvm-svn: 123294
Added test to check bl __aeabi_read_tp gets emitted properly for ELF/ASM
as well as ELF/OBJ (including fixup)
Also added support for ELF::R_ARM_TLS_IE32
llvm-svn: 121312
actuall addresses in a .o file, so it is better to let the MachO writer compute
it.
This is good for two reasons. First, areas that shouldn't care about
addresses now don't have access to it. Second, the layout of each section
is independent. I should use this in a subsequent commit to speed it up.
Most of the patch is just removing the section address computation. The two
interesting parts are the change on how we handle padding in the end
of sections and how MachO can get the address of a-b when a and b are in
different sections.
Since now the expression evaluation normally doesn't know the section address,
it will think that a-b needs relocation and let the MachO writer know. Once
it has computed the section addresses, it calls back the expression evaluation
with the section addresses to resolve these expressions.
The remaining problem is the handling of padding. Currently it will create
a special alignment fragment at the end. Since that fragment doesn't update
the alignment of the section, it needs the real address to be computed.
Since now the layout will not compute a-b with a and b in different sections,
the only effect that the special alignment fragment has is update the
address size of the section. This can also be done by the MachO writer.
llvm-svn: 121076
contain only data. Handle them specially instead of using AddSectionToTheEnd.
This moves a hack from the generic assembler to the elf writer. It is also
a bit faster and should make other improvements easier.
llvm-svn: 120683
Lifted adjustFixupValue() from Darwin for sharing w ELF.
Test added
TODO:
refactor ELFObjectWriter::RecordRelocation more.
Possibly share more code with Darwin?
Lots more relocations...
llvm-svn: 120534
Next step is to rationally break apart the RecordRelocation()
Probably the step will be to have 1 member function for ech slot of the ELFRelocationEntry()
llvm-svn: 119978
variable if recursing fails to simplify it.
Factor AliasedSymbol to be a method of MCSymbol.
Update MCAssembler::EvaluateFixup to match the change in
EvaluateAsRelocatableImpl.
Remove the WeakRefExpr hack, as the object writer now sees the weakref with
no extra effort needed.
Nothing else is using MCTargetExpr, but keep it for now.
Now that the ELF writer sees relocations with aliases, handle
.weak foo2
foo2:
.weak bar2
.set bar2,foo2
.quad bar2
the same way gas does and produce a relocation with bar2.
llvm-svn: 119152
Added 2 new subclasses - X86ELFObjectWriter and ARMELFObectWriter.
ARM and X86 require different code for RecordRelocation(), possibly others.
llvm-svn: 119149
just
.type foo,@object
will produce an undefined reference to foo. On the other hand, a file with
just
.weakref bar, foo
will not. It is somewhat hard to support both in MC since both statements
should create the symbols. It should be possible if we really need to by
adding to the flags, but hopefully that is not necessary.
With this patch we do not produce a undefined reference in any of those cases.
The assembly file needs an actual use for the undefined reference to be
present.
This is in preparation for a patch implementing .weakref.
llvm-svn: 117735
Rafael Espindola