Manifest file is a separate or embedded XML file having metadata
of an executable. As it is XML, it can contain various types of
information. Probably the most popular one is to request escalated
priviledges.
Usually the linker creates an XML file and embed that file into
an executable. However, there's a way to supply an XML file from
command line. /manifestniput is it.
Apparently it is over-designed here, but if you supply two or more
manifest files, then the linker needs to merge the files into a
single XML file. A good news is that we don't need to do that ourselves.
MT.exe command can do that, so we call the command from the linker
in this patch.
llvm-svn: 266704
With the llvm change in r265606 this is the matching needed change to the lld
code now that createBinary() is returning Expected<...> .
llvm-svn: 265607
This flag disables link.exe's crash handler so that normal windows error
reporting and crash dumping occurs. For now it is reasonable for LLD to
ignore the flag.
Chromium is currently using this flag to collect minidumps of link.exe
crashing, and it breaks the LLD build.
llvm-svn: 264439
Some declarations of memcpy (like glibc's for example) are attributed
with notnull which makes it UB for NULL to get passed in, even if the
memcpy count is zero.
To account for this, guard the memcpy with an appropriate precondition.
This should fix the last UBSan bug, exposed by the test suite, in the
COFF linker.
llvm-svn: 263919
LLD type-punned an integral type and a pointer type using a pointer
field. This is problematic because the pointer type has alignment
greater than some of the integral values.
This would be less problematic if a union was used but it turns out the
integral values are only present for a short, transient, amount of time.
Let's remove this undefined behavior by skipping the punning altogether
by storing the state in a separate memory location: a vector which
informs us which symbols to process for weak externs.
llvm-svn: 263918
This fixes a test which exposed an ASan issue.
We assumed that a symbol's section number had a corresponding section
without performing validation.
llvm-svn: 263558
The load configuration directory is a structure whose size varies as the
OS gains additional functionality. To account for this, the structure's
layout begins with a size field; this allows loaders to know which
fields are available.
However, LLD hard-coded the sizes (112 bytes for 64-bit and 64 for
32-bit). This means that we might not inform the loader of all the
pertinent fields or we might claim that there are more fields than are
actually present.
To correctly account for this, the size field must be loaded from the
_load_config_used symbol.
N.B. The COFF spec is either wrong or out of date, the load
configuration directory is not correctly documented in the
specification: it omits the size field.
llvm-svn: 263543
The TLS directory has a different layout depending on the bitness of the
machine the image will run on. LLD would always use the 64-bit TLS
directory for the data directory entry instead of an appropriately sized
TLS directory.
llvm-svn: 263539
Now that DarwinLdDriver is the only derived class of Driver.
This patch merges them and actually removed the class because
they can now just be non-member functions. This change simplifies
a common header, Driver.h.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17788
llvm-svn: 262502
DLL export tables usually contain dllexport'ed symbol RVAs so that
applications which use the DLLs can find symbols from the DLLs.
However, there's a minor feature to "forward" DLL symbols to other
DLLs.
If you set an RVA to a string whose form is "<dllname>.<symbolname>"
(e.g. "KERNEL32.ExitProcess") instead of symbol RVA to the export
table, the loader interprets that as a forwarder symbol, and resolve
that symbol from the specified DLL.
This patch implements that feature.
llvm-svn: 257243
In a UI such as XCode, LLVM source files are in 'libraries' while clang
files are in 'clang libraries'.
This change moves the lld source to 'lld libraries' to make code browsing easier.
It should be NFC as the build itself is still the same, just the structure in a
UI differs.
llvm-svn: 257001
MSVC linker considers PDB files created with this patch valid.
So you don't have to remove PDB files created by lld before
running MSVC linker.
This patch has no test since llvm-pdbdump dislikes PDB files
with no metadata streams.
llvm-svn: 255039
Before this patch, we created an empty PDB file if /debug option is
specified. For MSVC linker, such PDB file is completely broken, and
linker exits without doing anything as soon as it finds an empty PDB
file.
A PDB file created in this patch has the correct file signature.
MSVC linker still thinks that the file is broken, but it then removes
and replaces with its output.
This is an initial patch to support PDB in LLD. We aim to support
PDB in order to make it 100% compatible with MSVC linker. PDB support
is the last missing piece.
llvm-svn: 254796
If a section symbol is not external, that COMDAT section should never
be merge with other sections in other compilation unit. Previously,
we didn't take visibility into account.
Note that COMDAT sections with non-external visibility makes sense
because they can be removed by dead-stripping.
Fixes https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=25686
llvm-svn: 254578
There was a threading issue in the ICF code for COFF. That seems like
a venign bug in the sense that it doesn't produce an incorrect output,
but it oftentimes misses reducible sections. As a result, mergeable
sections could remain in outputs, which makes the output nondeterministic.
Basically the algorithm we are using for ICF is this: We group sections
so that identical sections will eventually be in the same group. Initially,
all sections are in one group. We split the group by relocation targets
until we get a convergence (if relocation targets are in different gruops,
the sections are different). Once a group is split, they will never be
merged.
Each section has a group ID. That variable itself is atomic, so there's
no threading issue at the level that we can use thread sanitizer.
The point is, when we split a group, we re-assign new group IDs to group
of sections. That are multiple separate writes to atomic varaibles.
Thus, splitting a group is not an atomic operation, and there's a small
chance that the other thread observes inconsistent group IDs.
Over-splitting is always "safe", so it will never create incorrect output.
I suspect that the nondeterminism stems from that point. However, I
cannot prove or fix that at this moment, so I'm going to avoid using
threads here.
llvm-svn: 251300
There's actually a room to improve this patch. Instead of not merging
sections that have different alignements, we can choose the section that
has the largest alignment requirement among all sections that are otherwise
considered the same. Then all section alignments are satisfied, so we can
merge them.
I don't know if that improvement could make any difference for real-world
input, so I'll leave it alone. Would be interesting to revisit later.
llvm-svn: 248581
Eugene Zelenko