Previously, we incrementally updated the reuslting flag as we check
file flags, so it was not very clear who is updating what flags.
This patch makes them pure functions -- that has no side effect and
don't update arguments to improve readability.
Now each function construct a patial result, and all resutls are then
bitwise-OR'ed to construct the final result.
This patch also creates a new file, Mips.cpp, to move all these
MIPS functions to a separate file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D23249
llvm-svn: 278042
This change simplifies interaction between Writer and the linker script
because we can make needsInterpSection() a file-scope function.
llvm-svn: 276261
Creating sections on linkerscript side requires some methods
that can be reused if are exported from writer.
Patch implements that change.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D20104
llvm-svn: 275162
Section garbage collection is a feature to remove unused sections
from outputs. Unused sections are sections that cannot be reachable
from known GC-root symbols or sections. Naturally the feature is
implemented as a mark-sweep garbage collector.
In this patch, I added Live bit to InputSectionBase. If and only
if Live bit is on, the section will be written to the output.
Starting from GC-root symbols or sections, a new function, markLive(),
visits all reachable sections and sets their Live bits. Writer then
ignores sections whose Live bit is off, so that such sections are
excluded from the output.
This change has small negative impact on performance if you use
the feature because making sections means more work. The time to
link Clang changes from 0.356s to 0.386s, or +8%.
It reduces Clang size from 57,764,984 bytes to 55,296,600 bytes.
That is 4.3% reduction.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13950
llvm-svn: 251043
SymbolTable was not a template class. Instead we had switch-case-based
type dispatch to call desired functions. We had to do that because
SymbolTable was created before we know what ELF type objects had been
passed.
Every time I tried to add a new function to the symbol table, I had to
define a dispatcher which consist of a single switch statement.
It also brought an restriction what the driver can do. For example,
we cannot add undefined symbols before any files are added to the symbol
table. That's because no symbols can be added until the symbol table
knows the ELF type, but when it knows about that, it's too late.
In this patch, the driver makes a decision on what ELF type objects
are being handled. Then the driver creates a SymbolTable object for
an appropriate ELF type.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D13544
llvm-svn: 249902
Various parameters are passed implicitly using Config global variable
already. Output file path is no different from others, so there was no
special reason to handle that differnetly.
This patch changes the signature of writeResult(SymbolTable *, StringRef)
to writeResult(SymbolTable *).
llvm-svn: 244180
We are using Writer more like a function instead of a class.
This patch makes it a function to simplify the interface.
All details of Writer class is now hidden from other parts of the linker.
llvm-svn: 244169
The others we have in sight are
* common symbols.
* entries in SHF_MERGE sections.
They will have a substantially different treatment. It is not clear if it is
worth it putting them all in a single list just to dispatch based on the kind on
the other side.
I hope to implement common symbols soon, and then we will be in a position
to have a concrete discussion. For now this is simpler for the the implemented
features.
llvm-svn: 244042
This is a direct port of the new PE/COFF linker to ELF.
It can take a single object file and generate a valid executable that executes at the first byte in the text section.
llvm-svn: 242088
Rui Ueyama