The Android relocation packing format is a more compact
format for dynamic relocations in executables and DSOs
that is based on delta encoding and SLEBs. An overview
of the format can be found in the Android source code:
https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic/+/refs/heads/master/tools/relocation_packer/src/delta_encoder.h
This patch implements relocation packing using that format.
This implementation uses a more intelligent algorithm for compressing
relative relocations than Android's own relocation packer. As a
result it can generally create smaller relocation sections than
that packer. If I link Chromium for Android targeting ARM32 I get a
.rel.dyn of size 174693 bytes, as compared to 371832 bytes with gold
and the Android packer.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39152
llvm-svn: 316775
It is PR34946.
Spec (http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/ld.1.html) tells about
--orphan-handling=MODE, option where MODE can be one of four:
"place", "discard", "warn", "error".
Currently we already report orphans when -verbose given,
what becomes excessive with option implemented.
Patch stops reporting orphans when -versbose is given,
and support "place", "warn" and "error" modes.
It is not yet clear that "discard" mode is useful so it is not supported.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D39000
llvm-svn: 316583
This is relative to PR30720.
Previously we ignored all --plugin-opt arguments.
Patch adds support for them.
Patch does not add any new LTO options,
and just implements mapping from --plugin-opt to existent ones.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D36227
llvm-svn: 310826
Eq helper allows to define `XXX` and `XXX=` options forms easily.
Patch adds testcases for few aliases.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35619
llvm-svn: 308752
Summary:
If the linker is invoked with `--chroot /foo` and `/bar/baz.o`, it
tries to read the file from `/foo/bar/baz.o`. This feature is useful
when you are dealing with files created by the --reproduce option.
Reviewers: grimar
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35517
llvm-svn: 308646
This is PR33766.
-F name
--filter=name
When creating an ELF shared object, set the internal DT_FILTER field to the specified name. This tells the dynamic linker that the symbol table of the shared object which is being created should be used as a filter on the symbol table of the shared object name.
If you later link a program against this filter object, then, when you run the program, the dynamic linker will see the DT_FILTER field. The dynamic linker will resolve symbols according to the symbol table of the filter object as usual, but it will actually link to the definitions found in the shared object name. Thus the filter object can be used to select a subset of the symbols provided by the object name.
(https://linux.die.net/man/1/ld).
Shared Objects as Filters:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/817-3677/chapter4-31738/index.html
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35352
llvm-svn: 308167
The --exclude-libs option is not a popular option, but at least some
programs in Android depend on it, so it's worth to support it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34422
llvm-svn: 305920
When the -no-keep-memory option is given, BFD linker tries to save
memory in their own way. Since our internal architecture is completely
different from that linker, that option doesn't make sense to us.
llvm-svn: 301772
gnu ld description of option is:
--defsym=symbol=expression
Create a global symbol in the output file, containing the absolute address given
by expression. You may use this option as many times as necessary to define multiple
symbols in the command line. A limited form of arithmetic is supported for the
expression in this context: you may give a hexadecimal constant or the name of an
existing symbol, or use "+" and "-" to add or subtract hexadecimal constants or
symbols. If you need more elaborate expressions, consider using the linker command
language from a script. Note: there should be no white space between symbol,
the equals sign ("="), and expression.
In compare with D32082, this patch does not support math expressions and absolute
symbols. It implemented via code similar to --wrap. That covers 1 of 3 possible
--defsym cases.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D32171
llvm-svn: 301391
Patch implements --compress-debug-sections=zlib.
In compare with D20211 (a year old patch, abandoned), it implementation
uses streaming and fully reimplemented, does not support zlib-gnu for
simplification.
This is PR32308.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31941
llvm-svn: 300444
This patch causes us to use pruneCache() to prune the ThinLTO cache after
completing LTO. A new flag --thinlto-cache-policy allows users to configure
the policy.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31021
llvm-svn: 298036
Options can start with `-` or `--` unless they start with "o".
Any option that starts with `-o` should be interpreted as an output
file name. This is a quote from the GNU ld man page.
Note -- there is one exception to this rule. Multiple letter
options that start with a lower case 'o' can only be preceded by
two dashes. This is to reduce confusion with the -o option.
So for example -omagic sets the output file name to magic whereas
--omagic sets the NMAGIC flag on the output.
We didn't handle that properly before.
llvm-svn: 297508
This patch adds an option named --thinlto-cache-dir, which specifies the
path to a directory in which to cache native object files for ThinLTO
incremental builds.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30509
llvm-svn: 296702
with temporarily file name fix in testcase.
Original commit message:
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294469
-q, --emit-relocs - Generate relocations in output
Simplest implementation:
* no GC case,
* no "/DISCARD/" linkerscript command support.
This patch is extracted from D28612 / D29636,
Relative to PR31579.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D29663
llvm-svn: 294464
Currently ld.lld -r allocates space for common symbols, whereas ld.bfd
-r doesn't. As a result the OpenBSD makefile bits for creating libraries
fail as they use ld -X -r to strip local symbols, which results in
duplicate symbol errors because space for the common symbols has been
allocated.
The diff also implements the --define-commons option such that allocation
of commons can be forced even if -r is used.
Patch by Mark Kettenis.
llvm-svn: 292878
Previously, that was an alias to -color-diagnostics=auto. However,
Clang's -fcolor-diagnostics is an alias to -fcolor-diagnostics=always,
so that was confusing. This patch fixes that issue.
llvm-svn: 290332
--retain-symbols-file=filename
Retain only the symbols listed in the file filename, discarding all others.
filename is simply a flat file, with one symbol name per line. This option
is especially useful in environments (such as VxWorks) where a large global
symbol table is accumulated gradually, to conserve run-time memory.
Note: though documentation says "--retain-symbols-file does not discard
undefined symbols, or symbols needed for relocations.", both bfd and gold
do that, and this patch too, like testcase show.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27716
llvm-svn: 290122
It os used in work/emulators/qemu-user-static port.
Which tries to use -Ttext-segment and then:
# In case ld does not support -Ttext-segment, edit the default linker
# script via sed to set the .text start addr. This is needed on FreeBSD
# at least.
<here it calls -verbose to extract and edit default bfd linker script.>
Actually now we are do not fully support -Ttext properly (see D27613),
but we also seems never will provide anything close to default script, like bfd do,
so at least this patch introduces proper alias handling.
llvm-svn: 289827
-N (-omagic)
Set the text and data sections to be readable and writable.
Also, do not page-align the data segment.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26888
llvm-svn: 288123
--no-rosegment: Do not put read-only non-executable sections in their own segment
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26889
llvm-svn: 288020
-color-diagnostics=auto is default because that's the same as
Clang's default. When color is enabled, error or warning messages
are colored like this.
error:
<bold>ld.lld</bold> <red>error:</red> foo.o: no such file
warning:
<bold>ld.lld</bold> <magenta>warning:</magenta> foo.o: no such file
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D27117
llvm-svn: 287949
This is in the context of https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=31109.
When LLD prints out errors for relocations, it tends to print out
extremely large number of errors (like millions) because it would
print out one error per relocation.
This patch makes LLD bail out if it prints out more than 20 errors.
You can configure the limitation using -error-limit argument.
-error-limit=0 means no limit.
I chose the flag name because Clang has the same feature as -ferror-limit.
"f" doesn't make sense to us, so I omitted it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26981
llvm-svn: 287789
GNU linkers disagree here.
Though both -version and -v are mentioned
in help to print the version information, GNU ld just normally exits,
while gold can continue linking. We are compatible with ld.bfd here.
This fixes PR31057.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D26865
llvm-svn: 287448
Rui Ueyama