For COFF and MachO, sections semantically have relocations that apply to them.
That is not the case on ELF.
In relocatable objects (.o), a section with relocations in ELF has offsets to
another section where the relocations should be applied.
In dynamic objects and executables, relocations don't have an offset, they have
a virtual address. The section sh_info may or may not point to another section,
but that is not actually used for resolving the relocations.
This patch exposes that in the ObjectFile API. It has the following advantages:
* Most (all?) clients can handle this more efficiently. They will normally walk
all relocations, so doing an effort to iterate in a particular order doesn't
save time.
* llvm-readobj now prints relocations in the same way the native readelf does.
* probably most important, relocations that don't point to any section are now
visible. This is the case of relocations in the rela.dyn section. See the
updated relocation-executable.test for example.
llvm-svn: 182908
Normally r_info is just a 32 of 64 bit number matching the endian of the rest
of the file. Unfortunately, mips 64 bit little endian is special: The top 32
bits are a little endian number and the following 32 are a big endian one.
llvm-svn: 178694
This finally fixes the encoding. The patch also
* Removes eh-frame.ll. It was an unnecessary .ll to .o test that was checking
the wrong value.
* Merge fde-reloc.s and eh-frame.s into a single test, since the only difference
was the run lines.
* Don't blindly test the content of the entire .eh_frame section. It makes it
hard to anyone actually fixing a bug and hitting a difference in a binary
blob. Instead, use a CHECK for each field and document what is being checked.
llvm-svn: 178615
Revision 177141 caused a regression in all but
mips64 little endian. That is because none of the
other Mips targets had test cases checking the
contents of the .eh_frame section. This patch fixes
both the llvm code and adds an assembler test case
to include the current 4 flavors.
The test cases unfortunately rely on llvm-objdump. A
preferable method would be to use a pretty printer output
such as what readelf -wf <elf_file> would give.
I also changed the name of the test case to correct a typo.
llvm-svn: 178506
Rafael Espindola