Change the default to facilitate GC for metadata section usage, so that they
don't need SHF_LINK_ORDER or SHF_GROUP just to drop the unhelpful rule (if they
want to be unconditionally retained, use SHF_GNU_RETAIN
(`__attribute__((retain))`) or linker script `KEEP`).
The dropped SHF_GROUP special case makes the behavior of -z start-stop-gc and -z
nostart-stop-gc closer to GNU ld>=2.37 (https://sourceware.org/PR27451).
However, we default to -z start-stop-gc (which actually matches more closely to
GNU ld before 2015-10 https://sourceware.org/PR19167), which is different from
modern GNU ld (which has the unhelpful rule to work around glibc). As a
compensation, we special case `__libc_` sections as a workaround for glibc<2.34
(https://sourceware.org/PR27492).
Since -z start-stop-gc as the default actually matches the traditional GNU ld
behavior, there isn't much to be aware of. There was a systemd usage which has
been fixed by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19144
r352366 "[llvm-objdump] - Print LMAs when dumping section headers." changed the format of
llvm-objdump output. We have to update the LLD tests.
llvm-svn: 352372
This puts us at parity with bfd, which could already gc this case.
I noticed the sections not being gced when linking a modified freebsd
kernel. A section that was not gced and not mentioned in the linker
script would end up breaking the expected layout. Since fixing the gc
is relatively simple and an improvement, that seems better than trying
to hack the orphan placement code.
There are 173 input section in the entire link whose names are valid C
identifiers, so this is probably not too performance critical.
llvm-svn: 297049
We were not gcing any section whose name was a C identifier. Both gold
and bfd only keep those if they are used.
To avoid having to create the __start/__stop symbols early or doing
string lookups in resolvedReloc, this patch just looks for undefined
symbols __start/__stop to decide if a section is needed or not.
llvm-svn: 296723
Fangrui Song