Previously, when encountering a symbol reloc located in a literal section, we
would look up the contents of the literal at the `symbol value + addend` offset
within the literal section. However, it seems that this offset is not guaranteed
to be valid. Instead, we should use just the symbol value to retrieve the
literal's contents, and compare the addend values separately. ld64 seems to do
this.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thevinster
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D124223
When comparing relocations against two symbols, ICF's equalsConstant() did not
look at the value of the two symbols. With subsections_via_symbols, the value
is usually 0 but not always: In particular, it isn't 0 for constants in string
and literal sections. Since we ignored the value, comparing two constant string
symbols or two literal symbols always compared the 0th's element, so functions
in the same TU always compared as equal.
This can cause mislinks, and, with -dead_strip, crashes.
Fixes PR52349, see that bug for lots of details and examples of mislinks.
While here, make the existing assembly in icf-literals.s a bit more realistic
(use leaq instead of movq with strings, and use foo(%rip) instead of
foo@gotpcrel(%rip)). This has no interesting effect, it just maybe makes the
test look a bit less surprising.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112862
Literal sections can be deduplicated before running ICF. That makes it
easy to compare them during ICF: we can tell if two literals are
constant-equal by comparing their offsets in their OutputSection.
LLD-ELF takes a similar approach.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104671
Jez Ng