MSVC link.exe cannot handle associative sections that refer later
sections in the section header. Technically, such COFF object doesn't
violate the Microsoft COFF spec, as the spec doesn't say anything
about that, but still we should avoid doing that to make it compatible
with MS tools.
This patch assigns smaller section numbers to non-associative sections
and larger numbers to associative sections. This should resolve the
compatibility issue.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30080
llvm-svn: 295464
COFF sections in MC were represented by a tuple of section-name and
COMDAT-name. This is not sufficient to represent a .text section
associated with another .text section; we need a way to distinguish
between the key section and the one marked associative.
llvm-svn: 211913
Prevent the early elimination of sections in the object writer. There may be
references to the section itself by other symbols, which may potentially not be
possible to resolve. ML (Visual Studio's Macro Assembler) also seems to retain
empty sections.
The elimination of symbols and sections which are unused should really occur at
the link phase. This will not cause any change in the resulting binary, simply
in the generated object files.
The adjustments to the other unit tests account for the fluctuating section
index caused by the appearance of sections which were previously discarded.
llvm-svn: 210373
* Section association cannot use just the section name as many
sections can have the same name. With this patch, the comdat symbol in
an assoc section is interpreted to mean a symbol in the associated
section and the mapping is discovered from it.
* Comdat symbols were not being set correctly. Instead we were getting
whatever was output first for that section.
A consequence is that associative sections now must use .section to
set the association. Using .linkonce would not work since it is not
possible to change a sections comdat symbol (it is used to decide if
we should create a new section or reuse an existing one).
This includes r210298, which was reverted because it was asserting
on an associated section having the same comdat as the associated
section.
llvm-svn: 210367
We extended the .section syntax to allow multiple sections with the
same name but different comdats, but currently we don't make sure that
the output section has that comdat symbol.
That happens to work with the code llc produces currently because it looks like
.section secName, "dr", one_only, "COMDATSym"
.globl COMDATSym
COMDATSym:
....
but that is not very friendly to anyone coding in assembly or even to
llc once we get comdat support in the IR.
This patch changes the coff object writer to make sure the comdat symbol is
output just after the section symbol, as required by the coff spec.
llvm-svn: 210298
This is the first step to fix pr17918.
It extends the .section directive a bit, inspired by what the ELF one looks
like. The problem with using linkonce is that given
.section foo
.linkonce....
.section foo
.linkonce
we would already have switched sections when getting to .linkonce. The cleanest
solution seems to be to add the comdat information in the .section itself.
llvm-svn: 195148
Rui Ueyama