https://maskray.me/blog/2022-01-16-archives-and-start-lib
For every definition in an extracted archive member, we intern the symbol twice,
once for the archive index entry, once for the .o symbol table after extraction.
This is inefficient.
Symbols in a --start-lib ObjFile/BitcodeFile are only interned once because the
result is cached in symbols[i].
Just handle an archive using the --start-lib code path. We can therefore remove
ArchiveFile and LazyArchive. For many projects, archive member extraction ratio
is high and it is a net performance win. Linking a Release build of clang is
1.01x as fast.
Note: --start-lib scans symbols in the same order that llvm-ar adds them to the
index, so in the common case the semantics should be identical. If the archive
symbol table was created in a different order, or is incomplete, this strategy
may have different semantics. Such cases are considered user error.
The `is neither ET_REL nor LLVM bitcode` error is changed to a warning.
Previously an archive may have such members without a diagnostic. Using a
warning prevents breakage.
* For some tests, the diagnostics get improved where we did not consider
the archive member name: `b.a:` => `b.a(b.o):`.
* `no-obj.s`: the link is now allowed, matching GNU ld
* `archive-no-index.s`: the `is neither ET_REL nor LLVM bitcode` diagnostic is
demoted to a warning.
* `incompatible.s`: even when an archive is unextracted, we may report an
"incompatible with" error.
---
I recently decreased sizeof(SymbolUnion) by 8 and decreased memory usage quite a
bit, so retaining `symbols` for un-extracted archive members should not cause a
memory usage problem.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119074
Note, we still name a preempted SharedSymbol "shared definition",
instead of "reference" as printed by GNU ld. This difference should not matter.
```
// GNU ld
ld.bfd: t: definition of f@v1
ld.bfd: t.so: reference to f@v1
```
Reviewed By: psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D80143
The tracing goes to stdout so this is not needed.
Also remove the "not" from the final check in ELF/trace-symbols.s.
According the comment the check is that we don't crash, so we should
be checking for success here. Previously this step is error'ing with
undefined symbols because it didn't include all the needed objects.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61928
llvm-svn: 360794
Some lit tests that call llvm-ar use the 'r' flag. If the target archive
already exists and is in a corrupt state, this can cause the test to fail. We
have added 'rm -f' calls before the llvm-ar calls to increase the
robustness of the tests.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D49184
llvm-svn: 338705
If building lld without x86 support, tests that require that support should
be treated as unsupported, not errors.
Tested using:
1. cmake '-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=AArch64;X86'
make check-lld
=>
Expected Passes : 1406
Unsupported Tests : 287
2. cmake '-DLLVM_TARGETS_TO_BUILD=AArch64'
make check-lld
=>
Expected Passes : 410
Unsupported Tests : 1283
Patch by Joel Jones
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D47748
llvm-svn: 334095
--trace-symbol is a command line option to watch a symbol.
Previosly, we looked up a hash table for a new symbol if the
option is given. Any code that looks up a hash table for each
symbol is expensive because the linker handles a lot of symbols.
In our design, we look up a hash table strictly only once
for a symbol, so --trace-symbol was an exception.
This patch improves efficiency of the option by merging the
hash table into the symbol table.
Instead of looking up a separate hash table with a string,
this patch sets `Traced` flag to symbols specified by --trace-symbol.
So, if you insert a symbol and get a symbol with `Traced` flag on,
you know that you need to print out a log message for the symbol.
This is nearly zero cost.
llvm-svn: 275716
Patch by Shridhar Joshi.
This option provides names of all the link time modules which define and
reference symbols requested by user. This helps to speed up application
development by detecting references causing undefined symbols.
It also helps in detecting symbols being resolved to wrong (unintended)
definitions in case of applications containing multiple definitions for
same symbols with different types, bindings.
Implements PR28226.
llvm-svn: 273536
Fangrui Song