Section symbols exist as an optimization: instead of having multiple relocations
point to different symbols, many of them can point to a single section symbol.
When that optimization is unused, a section symbol is also unused and adds no
extra information to the object file.
This saves a bit of space on the object files and makes the output of
llvm-objdump -t easier to read and consequently some tests get quite a bit
simpler.
llvm-svn: 239045
The ELF spec is very clear:
-----------------------------------------------------------------------------
If the value is non-zero, it represents a string table index that gives the
symbol name. Otherwise, the symbol table entry has no name.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------
In particular, a st_name of 0 most certainly doesn't mean that the symbol has
the same name as the section.
llvm-svn: 238899
ELF has no restrictions on where undefined symbols go relative to other defined
symbols. In fact, gas just sorts them together. Do the same.
This was there since r111174 probably just because the MachO writer has it.
llvm-svn: 238513
Fixes PR19582.
Previously, when an asm assignment (.set or =) was created, we would look up
the section immediately in MCSymbol::setVariableValue. This caused symbols
to receive the wrong section if the RHS of the assignment had not been seen
yet. This had a knock-on effect in the object file emitters, causing them
to emit extra symbols, or to give symbols the wrong visibility or the wrong
section. For example, in the following asm:
.data
.Llocal:
.text
leaq .Llocal1(%rip), %rdi
.Llocal1 = .Llocal2
.Llocal2 = .Llocal
the first assignment would give .Llocal1 a null section, which would never get
fixed up by the second assignment. This would cause the ELF object file emitter
to consider .Llocal1 to be an undefined symbol and give it external linkage,
even though .Llocal1 should not have been emitted at all in the object file.
Or in the following asm:
alias_to_local = Ltmp0
Ltmp0:
the Mach-O object file emitter would give the alias_to_local symbol a n_type
of N_SECT and a n_sect of 0. This is invalid under the Mach-O specification,
which requires N_SECT symbols to receive a non-zero section number if the
symbol is defined in a section in the object file.
https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/MachORuntime/#//apple_ref/c/tag/nlist
After this change we do not look up the section when the assignment is created,
but instead look it up on demand and store it in Section, which is treated
as a cache if the symbol is a variable symbol.
This change also fixes a bug in MCExpr::FindAssociatedSection. Previously,
if we saw a subtraction, we would return the first referenced section, even in
cases where we should have been returning the absolute pseudo-section. Now we
always return the absolute pseudo-section for expressions that subtract two
section-derived expressions. This isn't always correct (e.g. if one of the
sections ends up being laid out at an absolute address), but it's probably
the best we can do without more context.
This allows us to remove code in two places where we appear to have been
working around this bug, in MachObjectWriter::markAbsoluteVariableSymbols
and in X86AsmPrinter::EmitStartOfAsmFile.
Re-applies r233595 (aka D8586), which was reverted in r233898.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8798
llvm-svn: 233995
This fixes the visibility of symbols in certain edge cases involving aliases
with multiple levels of indirection.
Fixes PR19582.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8586
llvm-svn: 233595
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
The first symbol on ELF is dummy, but it has a defined content and readelf
normally displays it. With this change llvm-readobj also displays it and we
can check that llvm-mc output is correct according to the standard.
llvm-svn: 183337
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
The failures in r116753 r116756 were caused by a python issue -
Python likes to append 'L' suffix to stringified numbers if the number
is larger than a machine int. Unfortunately, this causes a divergence of
behavior between 32 and 64 bit python versions.
I re-crafted elf-dump/common_dump to take care of these issues by:
1. always printing 0x (makes for easy sed/regex)
2. always print fixed length (exactly 2 + numBits/4 digits long)
by mod ((2^numBits) - 1)
3. left-padded with '0'
There is a residual common routine that is also used by
macho-dump (dataToHex) , so I left the 'section_data' test values alone.
llvm-svn: 116823
Rafael Espindola