-fdata-sections decides whether global variables go into different sections.
This is orthogonal to whether we place their metadata (`.data` or `asan_globals`) into different sections.
With -fno-data-sections, `-fsanitize-address-globals-dead-stripping` can still:
* deduplicate COMDAT `asan.module_ctor` and `asan.module_dtor`
* (with ld --gc-sections): for a data section (e.g. `.data`), if all global variables defined relative to it are unreferenced, discard them and associated `asan_globals` sections (rare but no need to exclude this case)
Similar to c7b90947bd for PE/COFF.
Reviewed By: #sanitizers, kstoimenov, vitalybuka
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120394
On ELF targets, if a function has uwtable or personality, or does not have
nounwind (`needsUnwindTableEntry`), it marks that `.eh_frame` is needed in the module.
Then, a function gets `.eh_frame` if `needsUnwindTableEntry` or `-g[123]` is specified.
(i.e. If -g[123], every function gets `.eh_frame`.
This behavior is strange but that is the status quo on GCC and Clang.)
Let's take asan as an example. Other sanitizers are similar.
`asan.module_[cd]tor` has no attribute. `needsUnwindTableEntry` returns true,
so every function gets `.eh_frame` if `-g[123]` is specified.
This is the root cause that
`-fno-exceptions -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -g` produces .debug_frame
while
`-fno-exceptions -fno-asynchronous-unwind-tables -g -fsanitize=address` produces .eh_frame.
This patch
* sets the nounwind attribute on sanitizer module ctor/dtor.
* let Clang emit a module flag metadata "uwtable" for -fasynchronous-unwind-tables. If "uwtable" is set, sanitizer module ctor/dtor additionally get the uwtable attribute.
The "uwtable" mechanism is generic: synthesized functions not cloned/specialized
from existing ones should consider `Function::createWithDefaultAttr` instead of
`Function::create` if they want to get some default attributes which
have more of module semantics.
Other candidates: "frame-pointer" (https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/955https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/1238), dso_local, etc.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100251
Fangrui Song