I think it might make sense to make COFF::MaxNumberOfSections16 be a uint32_t, however, that may have wider-reaching implications in other projects, which is why I did not change that declaration.
llvm-svn: 220384
Teach yaml2obj how to make a bigobj COFF file. Like the rest of LLVM,
we automatically decide whether or not to use regular COFF or bigobj
COFF on the fly depending on how many sections the resulting object
would have.
This ends the task of adding bigobj support to LLVM.
N.B. This was tested by forcing yaml2obj to be used in bigobj mode
regardless of the number of sections. While a dedicated test was
written, the smallest I could make it was 36 MB (!) of yaml and it still
took a significant amount of time to execute on a powerful machine.
llvm-svn: 217858
Teach WinCOFFObjectWriter how to write -mbig-obj style object files;
these object files allow for more sections inside an object file.
Our support for BigObj is notably different from binutils and cl: we
implicitly upgrade object files to BigObj instead of asking the user to
compile the same file *again* but with another flag. This matches up
with how LLVM treats ELF variants.
This was tested by forcing LLVM to always emit BigObj files and running
the entire test suite. A specific test has also been added.
I've lowered the maximum number of sections in a normal COFF file,
VS "14" CTP 3 supports no more than 65279 sections. This is important
otherwise we might not switch to BigObj quickly enough, leaving us with
a COFF file that we couldn't link.
yaml2obj support is all that remains to implement.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5349
llvm-svn: 217812
Input YAML file might contain multiple object file definitions.
New option `-docnum` allows to specify an ordinal number (starting from 1)
of definition used for an object file generation.
Patch reviewed by Sean Silva.
llvm-svn: 209967
The current state of affairs has auxiliary symbols described as a big
bag of bytes. This is less than satisfying, it detracts from the YAML
file as being human readable.
Instead, allow for symbols to optionally contain their auxiliary data.
This allows us to have a much higher level way of describing things like
weak symbols, function definitions and section definitions.
This depends on D3105.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3092
llvm-svn: 204214
Previously, yaml2coff.cpp had a writeHexData static helper function to
do this, but it is generally useful functionality.
Also, validate hex strings up-front to avoid running having to handle
errors "deep inside" the yaml2obj code (it also gives better diagnostics
than it used to).
llvm-svn: 183345
Aaron Ballman