__ImageBase is a symbol having 4 byte integer equal to the image base address
of the resultant executable. The linker is expected to create the symbol as if
it were read from a file.
In order to emit the symbol contents only when the symbol is actually
referenced, we created a pseudo library file to wrap the linker generated
symbol. The library file member is emitted to the output only when the member
is actually referenced, which is suitable for our purpose.
llvm-svn: 188052
The COMDAT section is a section with a special attribute to tell the linker
whether the symbols in the section are allowed to be merged or not. This patch
add a function to interpret the COMDAT data and set "merge" attribute to the
atoms accordingly.
LLD supports multiple policies to merge atoms; atoms can be merged by name or
by content. COFF supports them, and in addition to that, it supports
choose-the-largest-atom policy, which LLD currently does not support. I simply
mapped it to merge-by-name attribute for now, but we eventually have to support
that policy in the core linker.
llvm-svn: 188025
Also change some local variable names: "ti" -> "context" and
"_targetInfo" -> "_context".
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1301
llvm-svn: 187823
The aim of this patch is to reduce the dependency from COFFDefinedAtom
to COFF structs defined in llvm/Object/COFF.h. Currently many attributes
of the atom are computed in the atom. That provide a simple interface but
does not work well in some cases.
There are some cases that the same type atom is created from different
parts of a COFF file. One example is the BSS atom, which can be created
from the defined symbol in the .bss section or from the undefined symbol.
Computing attributes from different sources in the atom complicates the
code. We should compute it outside the atom.
In the next patch, I'll move more code from Atoms.h to ReaderCOFF.cpp.
llvm-svn: 187681
Summary:
The .drectve section contains linker command line options, and the linker is
expected to interpret them as if they were given via the command line. In this
patch, the command line parser in the driver is called from the object file
reader to parse the string.
I think this patch is important, because this is the first step towards mutable
TargetInfo. We had a discussion about that on llvm-commits mailing list before.
I haven't removed "const" from the function signature yet. Instead, I just use
cast to remove "const". This is a temporary aid for an experiment. If we don't
see any issue with this mutable TargetInfo appraoch, I'll change the function
signature, and rename the class LinkerContext from TargetInfo.
Reviewers: kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1246
llvm-svn: 187677
For an invalid input we should not call report_fatal_error(), because
when LLD is used as a library, we don't want to kill the whole app
because of a malformed input.
llvm-svn: 187673
A instance of the class always represents a BSS atom, so we don't need
to look at the symbol or the section to retrieve its attributes.
llvm-svn: 187643
The BSS atom is similar to the regular defined atom, but it's different
in the sense that it does not have contents. Until now we assumed all the
defined atoms have its contents. That did not fit well to the BSS atom.
llvm-svn: 187453
This patch removes hacky mangle() function, which strips all decorations
uncondtitionally. LLD now interprets Import Name/Type field in the import
library properly as described in the Microsoft PE/COFF Spec.
llvm-svn: 187388
Member functions to read the symbol table had too many parameters to propagate
all the temporary information from one to another. By storing the information
to data members, we can simplify the function signatures and improve the
readability.
llvm-svn: 187321
Some sections, such as with IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE attribute, is skipped
in the first pass. Such sections need to be skipped in the latter passes.
llvm-svn: 187281
Missing files will be reported as errors in the later pass, so this patch
does not change the behavior of the LLD linker, but it helps writing unit
tests for the driver.
llvm-svn: 187256
The /include command line option is equivalent to Unix --undefined
option, which forces the linker to resolve the given symbol name
as if it's an unresolved symbol in one of its input files. This feature
is used to link an additional object file or a shared library that no
input files refer to.
llvm-svn: 187084
This is a follow up patch for r186336.
Reviewers: LegalizeAdulthood
CC: silvas, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1144
llvm-svn: 186384
Emit .reloc section. This is the first step to support DLL creation. The
executable doesn't need .reloc section, but the DLL does.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1126
llvm-svn: 186336
This patch adds a new pass, IdataPass, to transform shared atom references
to real references and to construct the .idata section data. With this patch
lld can produce a working Hello World program by linking it against
kernel32.dll and user32.dll.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1096
llvm-svn: 186071
Contents of ".reloc" section depends on the addresses of other sections, so
the section cannot be created until all the other sections are created and get
their memory addresses (RVAs). That means that computation of section size
needs to be at least two pass.
Techynically there's no reason to compute it all at once, but instead we can
compute the address of a section as added to the output file. Doing so helps
us to create ".reloc" section.
llvm-svn: 185902
The optional data directory header contains addresses to some atoms such
as the import address table in data section. Such fields can naturally
be set by relocation if we make the optional data driectory as an atom.
Currently we assume that atoms are always in a section, so we can't create
a file header with atoms. This patch separates section chunk from atom
chunk, to allow atom-based file header.
llvm-svn: 185521
A hint is an index of the export pointer table in a DLL, at which
PE/COFF loader starts looking for a symbol name. The import library
comes with hints and symbol pairs, and as long as hints are in sync
with the actual symbol table in DLL, the symbols will be resolved
quickly. So, we shouldn't ignore hints but propagate them to an output.
llvm-svn: 185516
In order to support linking against DLL, the linker needs to create defined
atoms for jump tables and etc. Because such atoms are not read from a file,
they lack some information such as an ordinal. With this patch, COFFDefinedAtom
is split into two classes; one is the base class of all COFF defined atoms, and
another is a concrete class for atoms read from file. More classes inheriting
COFFBaseDefinedAtom will be added for jump tables and etc.
llvm-svn: 185195
Extract atom definitions as Atoms.h so that we can use them in other files.
Also applied clang-format to Atoms.h.
Reviewers: shankarke
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D995
llvm-svn: 184124
This is the first patch toward full DLL support. With this patch, lld can
read .lib file for a DLL.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D987
llvm-svn: 184101
With this patch, it can now resolve relocations in the same output file.
"Hello world" program does not still work because call to the DLL routine
is not supported yet.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D985
llvm-svn: 184063
Archive file in Windows has file extension of ".lib" but the file format is
in fact the same as Unix. It's an ar archive holding multiple .obj files.
The existing archive reader can read .lib files.
llvm-svn: 184036
Summary:
COFFReference class is defined to represent relocation information for
COFFDefinedAtom, as ELFReference for ELFDefinedAtom. ReaderCOFF can now
read relocation entries and create COFFReferences accordingly.
I need to make WriterPECOFF to handle the relocation references created by
the reader, but this patch is already big, so I think it's probably better
to get it reviewed now.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D976
llvm-svn: 183964
Architecture specific code should reside in architecture specific directory
not in Atom. Looks like there are no efforts being made at this moment to
support ARM, so let's remove it for now.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D959
llvm-svn: 183877
The yaml reader is not specific to any file format. This patch moves
it to TargetInfo and makes validate a non virtual interface so that it
can be constructed from a single location.
The same method will be used to create a reader for llvm bitcode
files.
llvm-svn: 183740
Split FileCOFF's constructor into mainly two private methods.
One method is responsible to iterate over symbol tables, and other
method is to atomize defined atoms. This is for readability and
no changes in functionality.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D940
llvm-svn: 183708
lld can now output a valid Windows executable with a text section that does nothing
but just returns immediately. It's not able to handle relocations, symbol tables,
data sections, etc, so it still can't do anything practical, though.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D892
llvm-svn: 183478
Add WinLinkDriver and connect it to the existing COFF reader. Remaining
parts are still stubs, so while it can now read a COFF file, it still
cannot link or output PE/COFF files yet.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D865
llvm-svn: 182784
The major changes are:
1) LinkerOptions has been merged into TargetInfo
2) LinkerInvocation has been merged into Driver
3) Drivers no longer convert arguments into an intermediate (core) argument
list, but instead create a TargetInfo object and call setter methods on
it. This is only how in-process linking would work. That is, you can
programmatically set up a TargetInfo object which controls the linking.
4) Lots of tweaks to test suite to work with driver changes
5) Add the DarwinDriver
6) I heavily doxygen commented TargetInfo.h
Things to do after this patch is committed:
a) Consider renaming TargetInfo, given its new roll.
b) Consider pulling the list of input files out of TargetInfo. This will
enable in-process clients to create one TargetInfo the re-use it with
different input file lists.
c) Work out a way for Drivers to format the warnings and error done in
core linking.
llvm-svn: 178776
I really would have liked to split this patch up, but it would greatly
complicate the lld-core and lld drivers having to deal with both
{Reader,Writer}Option and TargetInfo.
llvm-svn: 173217
* Moves enum Scope from DefinedAtom.h to Atom.h
* Adds scope method to AbsoluteAtom class
* Updates YAML to print scope of AbsoluteAtoms
* Update Native Reader/Writer to handle this new, "attribute"
* Adds testcase
Reviewed and approved by Nick Kledzik
llvm-svn: 166189
now Reader and Writer subclasses for each file format. Each Reader and
Writer subclass defines an "options" class which controls how that Reader
or Writer operates.
llvm-svn: 157774
Rui Ueyama