You can instruct the linker to not discard sections even if they
are unused and --gc-sections option is given. The linker script
command for doing that is KEEP. The syntax is KEEP(foo) where foo
is a section name. KEEP commands are written in SECTIONS command,
so you can specify the order of sections *and* which sections
will be kept.
Each sub-command in SECTIONS command are translated into SectionRule
object. Previously, each SectionRule has `Keep` bit. However,
if you think about it, this hid information in too deep in elements
of a list. Semantically, KEEP commands aren't really related to
SECTIONS subcommands. We can keep the section list for KEEP in a
separate list. This patch does that.
llvm-svn: 267065
* Do script driven layout only if SECTIONS section exist.
Initial commit message:
[ELF] - Implemented basic location counter support.
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266526
This patch implements location counter support.
It also separates assign addresses for sections to assignAddressesScript() if it scipt exists.
Main testcase is test/ELF/linkerscript-locationcounter.s, It contains some work with location counter. It is basic now.
Implemented location counter assignment and '+' operations.
Patch by myself with LOTS of comments and design suggestions from Rui Ueyama.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18499
llvm-svn: 266457
When link-time garbage collection is in use (-gc-sections), it is
often useful to mark sections that should not be eliminated.
This is accomplished by surrounding an input section's wildcard
entry with KEEP(). Patch implements that command.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17242
llvm-svn: 261616
Rui Ueyama