Previously we invoked cvtres.exe for each compiled Windows
resource file. The generated files were then concatenated
and embedded to the executable.
That was not the correct way to merge compiled Windows
resource files. If you just concatenate generated files,
only the first file would be recognized and the rest would
be ignored as trailing garbage.
The right way to merge them is to call cvtres.exe with
multiple input files. In this patch we do that in the
Windows driver.
llvm-svn: 212763
Previously the alignment of the .bss section was not
properly set because of a bug in AtomizeDefinedSymbolsInSection.
We set the alignment of the section at the end of the function,
but we use an eraly return for the .bss section, so the code had
been skipped.
llvm-svn: 212571
COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. If a target atom is
coalesced away, the referring atom is removed by Resolver, so that
they are treated as a group.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4028
llvm-svn: 211106
COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
Implementing such feature is easy. We can add a reference from a
target atom to an original atom, so that if the target is linked,
the original atom is also linked. If not linked, both will be
dead-stripped. So they are treated as a group.
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. It does nothing except
preventing referenced atoms from being dead-stripped.
No change to the Resolver is needed.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, atanasyan
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3946
llvm-svn: 210240
/alternatename is a command line option to define a weak alias. You
can use it as /alternatename:foo=bar to define "foo" as a weak alias
for "bar".
Because it's a command line option, the weak alias mapping is in the
LinkingContext object, and not in a object file being read.
Previously, we looked up the mapping each time we read a new symbol
from a file, to check if there is a weak alias defined for the symbol.
That's not wrong, but had made function signature's a bit complicated --
we had to pass the mapping object to many functions. Now their
parameter lists are much cleaner.
This also has another (unrealized) benefit. parseFile() now read a
file and then add alias symbols to the file. In the first pass a
LinkingContext object is not used at all. That should make it easy
to read files from archive files speculatively, as the first pass
is free from side effect.
llvm-svn: 209486
As written in the comment in this patch, symbol names specified with
/export option is resolved in a special way; for /export:foo, linker
finds a foo@<number> symbol if such symbols exists.
On Windows, a function in stdcall calling convention is mangled with
a leading underscore and following "@" and numbers. This name
mangling is kind of automatic, so you can sometimes omit _ and @number
when specifying a symbol. /export option is that case.
Previously, if a file in an archive file foo.lib provides a symbol
_fn@8, and /export:fn is specified, LLD failed to resolve the symbol.
It only tried to find _fn, and failed to find _fn@8. With this patch,
_fn@8 will be searched on the second iteration.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3736
llvm-svn: 208754
We did not actively try to resolve dllexported symbols specified
by /export or by a module definition file. So if exported symbols
would be resolved for other reasons, like other symbols refer to
them, that was fine, but if (unreferenced) exported symbols were
in an archive file, and no one refers to that file in the archive,
they remained unresolved.
That would obviously cause the issue that dllexported symbols are
not in a resultant DLL.
In this patch, we create an undefined symbol for each dllexported
symbol, to let the core linker to resolve it.
llvm-svn: 208452
Previously the handling of exported symbol was wrong if it's
specified in a module definition file in the form of
<externalname>=<internalname>. Export the correct symbol.
llvm-svn: 208446
Export definitions in a module definition file is as follows:
exportedname[=internalname] [@ordinal [NONAME]] [PRIVATE] [DATA]
Previously we did not support =internalname, so users couldn't export
symbols from a DLL with a different name.
llvm-svn: 207827
When creating a .lib file, we should strip the leading underscore,
but should not strip stdcall atsign suffix. Otherwise produced .lib
files cannot be linked.
llvm-svn: 207729
Previously the input file for the lib.exe command would be removed
as soon as the command exits, so we couldn't write a test to check
the file contents are correct.
This patch adds /lldmoduledeffile: option to retain a copy of the
temporary file at the given file path, so that you can see the file
if you want.
llvm-svn: 207727
Linker should create _imp_ symbols for local use only when such
symbols cannot be resolved in any other way. If it overrides real
imported symbols, such symbols remain virtually unresolved without
error, causing odd issues. I observed that a program linked with
LLD entered an infinite loop before reaching main() because of
this issue.
This patch moves the virtual file creating _imp_ symbols to the
very end of the input file list. Previously, the file is at the end
of the library file group. Linker might revisit the group many times,
so it was not really at the end of the input file list.
llvm-svn: 207605
Implicit symbol for local use implemented in r207141 was not fully
compatible with MSVC link.exe. In r207141, I implemented the feature
in such way that implicit symbols are defined only when they are
exported with /EXPORT option.
After that I found that implicit symbols are defined not only for
dllexported symbols but for all defined symbols. Actually _imp_
implicit symbols have no relationship with the dllexport feature. You
could add _imp_ to any symbol to get a pointer to the symbol, whether
the symbol is dllexported or not. It looks pretty weird to me but
that's what we want if link.exe behaves that way.
Here is a bit about the implementation: Creating all implicit symbols
beforehand is going to be a huge waste of resource. This feature is
rarely used, and MSVC link.exe even prints out a warning message when
it finds this feature is being used. So we create implicit symbols
on demand. There is an archive file that creates implicit symbols when
they are needed.
llvm-svn: 207476
We don't use sections with IMAGE_SYM_DEBUG attribute so we basically
want to the symbols for them when reading symbol table. When we skip
them, we need to skip auxiliary symbols too. Otherwise weird error
would happen because aux symbols would be interpreted as regular ones.
llvm-svn: 206931
LIBRARY directive in a module definition file specifies the output
DLL file name. It also takes an optional value for the base address.
llvm-svn: 206647
This patch is to support --defsym option for ELF file format/GNU-compatible
driver. Currently it takes a symbol name followed by '=' and a number. If such
option is given, the driver sets up an absolute symbol with the specified
address. You can specify multiple --defsym options to define multiple symbols.
GNU LD's --defsym provides many more features. For example, it allows users to
specify another symbol name instead of a number to define a symbol alias, or it
even allows a symbol plus an offset (e.g. --defsym=foo+3) to define symbol-
relative alias. This patch does not support that, but will be supported in
subsequent patches.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3208
llvm-svn: 205029
If a response file is given via command line, the final command line
arguments will not appear in the log because the actual arguments are
in the given file.
This patch is to show the final command line if /verbose is specified
to help users.
llvm-svn: 204754
Update all of the unit tests to use the new format.
This depends on D3092.
Reviewers: ruiu
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3093
llvm-svn: 204215
COMDAT_SELECT_LARGEST is a COMDAT type that make linker to choose the largest
definition from among all of the definition of a symbol. If the size is the
same, the choice is arbitrary.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3011
llvm-svn: 204172
If the driver finds a command line option in the form of "@filename", the
option will be replaced with the content of the given file. It's an error
if a response file cannot be read.
llvm-svn: 203875
An object whose machine type header value is unknown looks a bit odd but
is valid. If an object contains only machine-type-independent data, you
can leave the type field unspecified. Some files in oldname.lib are such
object files.
llvm-svn: 203752
Summary:
COMDAT_SELECT_SAME_SIZE is a COMDAT type that I presume exist only in COFF.
The semantics of the type is that linker should merge such COMDAT sections if
their sizes are the same. Otherwise it's an error.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2996
llvm-svn: 203308
Just like x86 exception handler table, the table for x64 needs to be sorted
so that runtime can binary search on it. Unlike x86, the table entry for x64
has multiple fields, and they need to be sorted according to its BeginAddress
field. This patch also fixes a bug in relocations.
llvm-svn: 202874
It looks like the contents of the table need to be sorted according to its
value, so that the runtime can find the entry by binary search. I'm not 100%
sure if we really have to do that, but at least I can say it's safe to do
because the contents of .sxdata is just a list of exception handlers' RVAs.
llvm-svn: 202550
If all input files are compatible with Structured Exception Handling, linker
is supposed to create an exectuable with a table for SEH handlers. The table
consists of exception handlers entry point addresses.
The basic idea of SEH in x86 Microsoft ABI is to list all valid entry points
of exception handlers in an read-only memory, so that an attacker cannot
override the addresses in it. In x86 ABI, data for exception handling is mostly
on stack, so it's volnerable to stack overflow attack. In order to protect
against it, Windows runtime uses the table to check a return address, to
ensure that the address is really an valid entry point for an exception handler.
Compiler emits a list of exception handler functions to .sxdata section. It
also emits a marker symbol "@feat.00" to indicate that the object is compatible
with SEH. SEH is a relatively new feature for COFF, and mixing SEH-compatible
and SEH-incompatible objects will result in an invalid executable, so is the
marker.
If all input files are compatible with SEH, LLD emits a SEH table. SEH table
needs to be pointed by Load Configuration strucutre, so when emitting a SEH
table LLD emits it too. The address of a Load Configuration will be stored to
the file header.
llvm-svn: 202248
The target machine type affects the meaning of other options, in particular
how to mangle symbols. So we want to handle the option first and then parse
all the other options.
llvm-svn: 200589
Because the object files are now readable to humans, I don't think we need the
source assembly file any more, so I removed them too in this commit.
llvm-svn: 200276