This patch adds support for the MachO .alt_entry assembly directive, and uses
it for global aliases with non-zero GEP offsets. The alt_entry flag indicates
that a symbol should be layed out immediately after the preceding symbol.
Conceptually it introduces an alternate entry point for a function or data
structure. E.g.:
safe_foo:
// check preconditions for foo
.alt_entry fast_foo
fast_foo:
// body of foo, can assume preconditions.
The .alt_entry flag is also implicitly set on assembly aliases of the form:
a = b + C
where C is a non-zero constant, since these have the same effect as an
alt_entry symbol: they introduce a label that cannot be moved relative to the
preceding one. Setting the alt_entry flag on aliases of this form fixes
http://llvm.org/PR25381.
llvm-svn: 263521
This sort-of deprecates macho-dump. It may take still a little while
to garbage collect it, but at least there's no real usage of it in
the tree anymore. New tests should always rely on llvm-readobj or
llvm-objdump.
llvm-svn: 247235
On Darwin, it is required to stamp the object file with VERSION_MIN load
command. This commit will provide a VERSRION_MIN load command to the
MachO file that doesn't specify the version itself by inferring from
Target Triple.
llvm-svn: 244059
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