This is used by Wine for manually crafting export tables.
If the input object contains .edata sections, GNU ld references them
in the export directory instead of synthesizing an export table using
either export directives or the normal auto export mechanism. (AFAIK,
historically, way way back, GNU ld didn't support synthesizing the
export table - one was supposed to generate it using dlltool and link
it in instead.)
If faced with --out-implib and --output-def, GNU ld still populates
those output files with the same export info as it would have generated
otherwise, disregarding the input .edata. As this isn't an intended
usage combination, I'm not adding checks for that in tests.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D65903
llvm-svn: 369358
Martin Storsjo