This reverts commit r223330 because it broke Darwin and ELF
linkers in a way that we couldn't have caught with the existing
test cases.
llvm-svn: 223373
Looks like the rule of /export is more complicated than
I was thinking. If /export:foo, for example, is given, and
if the actual symbol name in an object file is _foo@<number>,
we need to export that symbol as foo, not as the mangled name.
If only /export:_foo@<number> is given, the symbol is exported
as _foo@<number>.
If both /export:foo and /export:_foo@<number> are given,
they are considered as duplicates, and the linker needs to
choose the unmangled name.
The basic idea seems that the linker needs to export a symbol
with the same name as given as /export.
We exported mangled symbols. This patch fixes that issue.
llvm-svn: 223341
The aim of this patch is to reduce the excessive abstraction from
the InputGraph. We found that even a simple thing, such as sorting
input files (Mach-O) or adding a new file to the input file list
(PE/COFF), is nearly impossible with the InputGraph abstraction,
because it hides too much information behind it. As a result,
we invented complex interactions between components (e.g.
notifyProgress() mechanism) and tricky code to work around that
limitation. There were many occasions that we needed to write
awkward code.
This patch is a first step to make it cleaner. As a first step,
this removes Group class from the InputGraph. The grouping feature
is now directly handled by the Resolver. notifyProgress is removed
since we no longer need that. I could have cleaned it up even more,
but in order to keep the patch minimum, I focused on Group.
SimpleFileNode class, a container of File objects, is now limited
to have only one File. We shold have done this earlier.
We used to allow putting multiple File objects to FileNode.
Although SimpleFileNode usually has only one file, the Driver class
actually used that capability. I modified the Driver class a bit,
so that one FileNode is created for each input File.
We should now probably remove SimpleFileNode and directly store
File objects to the InputGraph in some way, because a container
that can contain only one object is useless. This is a TODO.
Mach-O input files are now sorted before they are passe to the
Resolver. DarwinInputGraph class is no longer needed, so removed.
PECOFF still has hacky code to add a new file to the input file list.
This will be cleaned up in another patch.
llvm-svn: 223330
/export option can be given multiple times to specify multiple
symbols to be exported. /export accepts both decorated and
undecorated name.
If you give both undecorated and decorated name of the same symbol
to /export, they are resolved to the same symbol. In this case,
we need to de-duplicate the exported names, so that we don't have
duplicated items in the export symbol table in a DLL.
We remove duplicate items from a vector. The bug was there.
Because we had pointers pointing to elements of the vector,
after an item is removed, they would point wrong elements.
This patch is to remove these pointers. Added a test for that case.
llvm-svn: 223200
Opening a file using openFileForWrite and closing it using close
was asymmetric. It also had a subtle portability problem (details are
described in the commit message for r219189).
llvm-svn: 222802
This was basically benign resource leak on Unix, but on Windows
it could cause builds to fail because opened file descriptor
prevents other processes from moving or removing the file.
llvm-svn: 222799
There are many build files in the wild that depend on the fact that
link.exe produces a PDB file if /DEBUG option is given. They fail
if the file is not created.
This patch is to make LLD create an empty (dummy) file to satisfy
such build targets. This doesn't do anything other than "touching"
the file.
If a target depends on the content of the PDB file, this workaround
is no help, of course. Otherwise this patch should help build some
stuff.
llvm-svn: 222773
Export table entries need to be sorted in ASCII-betical order,
so that the loader can find an entry for a function by binary search.
We sorted the entries by its mangled names. That can be different
from their exported names. As a result, LLD produces incorrect export
table, from which the loader complains that a function that actually
exists in a DLL cannot be found.
This patch fixes that issue.
llvm-svn: 222452
If you have something like
__declspec(align(8192)) int foo = 1;
in your code, the compiler makes the data to be aligned to 8192-byte
boundary, and the linker align the section containing the data to 8192.
LLD always aligned the section to 4192. So, as long as alignment
requirement is smaller than 4192, it was correct, but for larger
requirements, it's wrong.
This patch fixes the issue.
llvm-svn: 222043
AddressOfEntryPoint is overridden after we layout all atoms (until then,
we don't know the entry point address for obvious reason.)
I believe this code is leftover from very early version of the
PE/COFF port that we only had an entry function in a test object file.
llvm-svn: 222026
Each entry in the delay-import address table had a wrong alignment
requirement if 32 bit. As a result it got wrong delay-import table.
Because llvm-readobj doesn't print out that field, we don't have a
test for that. I'll submit a test that would catch this bug after
improving llvm-readobj.
llvm-svn: 221853
If /subsystem option is not given, the linker needs to infer the
subsystem based on the entry point symbol. If it fails to infer
that, the linker should error out on it.
LLD was almost correct, but it would fail to infer the subsystem
if the entry point is specified with /entry. This is because the
subsystem inference was coupled with the entry point function
searching (if no entry point name is specified, the linker needs
to find the right entry name).
This patch makes the subsystem inference an independent pass to
fix the issue. Now, as long as an entry point function is defined,
LLD can infer the subsystem no matter how it resolved the entry
point.
I don't think scanning all the defined symbols is fast, although
it shouldn't be that slow. The file class there does not provide
any easy way to find an atom by name, so this is what we can do
at this moment. I'd like to revisit this later to make it more
efficient.
llvm-svn: 221499
SECREL relocation's value is the offset to the beginning of the section.
Because of the off-by-one error, if a SECREL relocation target is at the
beginning of a section, it got wrong value.
Added a test that would have caught this.
llvm-svn: 221420
Many programs, for reasons unknown, really like to look at the
AddressOfRelocationTable to determine whether or not they are looking at
a bona fide PE file. Without this, programs like the UNIX `file'
utility will insist that they are looking at a MS DOS executable.
llvm-svn: 221335
LLD skipped COMDAT section symbols when reading them because
I thought we don't want to have symbols with the same name.
But they are actually needed because relocations may refer to
the section symbols. So we shoulnd't skip them.
llvm-svn: 221329
Normally, PE files have section names of eight characters or less.
However, this is problematic for DWARF because DWARF section names are
things like .debug_aranges.
Instead of truncating the section name, redirect the section name into
the string table.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6104
llvm-svn: 221212
This is a follow-up patch for r220333. r220333 renames exported symbols.
That raised another issue; if we have both decorated and undecorated names
for the same symbol, we'll end up have two duplicate exported symbol
entries.
This is a fix for that issue by removing duplciate entries.
llvm-svn: 220350
There are two ways to specify a symbol to be exported in the module
definition file.
1) EXPORT <external name> = <symbol>
2) EXPORT <symbol>
In (1), you give both external name and internal name. In that case,
the linker tries to find a symbol using the internal name, and write
that address to the export table with the external name. Thus, from
the outer world, the symbol seems to be exported as the external name.
In (2), internal name is basically the same as the external name
with an exception: if you give an undecorated symbol to the EXPORT
directive, and if the linker finds a decorated symbol, the external
name for the symbol will become the decorated symbol.
LLD didn't implement that exception correctly. This patch fixes that.
llvm-svn: 220333
Previously we supported x86 only. This patch is to support x64.
The array of pointers to delay-loaded functions points the
DLL delay loading function at start-up. When a function is called
for the first time, the delay loading function gets called and
then rewrite the function pointer array.
llvm-svn: 220096
This patch creates the import address table and sets its
address to the delay-load import table. This also creates
wrapper functions for __delayLoadHelper2.
x86 only for now.
llvm-svn: 219948
We are going to have another type of jump table for the delay-load
import table. In order to prepare for that, we want to factor out
the function handling the jump table. No functionality change.
llvm-svn: 219446
Previously the field was not set. The field should be pointing to
a placeholder where the DLL delay-loader writes the base address
of a DLL.
llvm-svn: 219415
This is a partial patch to emit the delay-import table. With this,
LLD is now able to emit the table that llvm-readobj can read and
dump.
The table lacks a few fields, such as the address of HMODULE, the
import address table, etc. They'll be added in subsequent patches.
llvm-svn: 219384
Teach the reader about ARM NT relocation types. Although the writer cannot yet
perform the actual application of these relocations, the reader can at least now
identify the relocation types.
llvm-svn: 219178
Previously, we would not check the target machine type and the module (object)
machine type. Add a check to ensure that we do not attempt to use an object
file with a different target architecture.
This change identified a couple of tests which were incorrectly mixing up
architecture types, using x86 input for a x64 target. Adjust the tests
appropriately. The renaming of the input and the architectures covers the
changes to the existing tests.
One significant change to the existing tests is that the newly added test input
for x64 uses the correct user label prefix for X64.
llvm-svn: 219093
In order to support more than x86/x86_64, we need to change the behaviour to use
the actual machine type rather than checking the bitness and assuming that we
are on X86. This replaces the use of is64bit in applyAllRelocations with a
check on the machine type. This will enable adding support for handling ARM
relocations.
Rename the existing applyRelocation methods to be similarly named and to make it
clear the types of relocations they will process.
llvm-svn: 219088
No functionality change. This removes a down-cast from LinkingContext to
MachOLinkingContext.
Also, remove const from LinkingContext::createImplicitFiles() to remove
the need for another const cast. Seems reasonable for createImplicitFiles()
to need to modify the context (MachOLinkingContext does).
llvm-svn: 218796
This is yet another edge case of ambiguous name resolution.
When a symbol is specified with /entry:SYM, SYM may be resolved
to the C++ mangled function name (?SYM@@YAXXZ).
llvm-svn: 218706
Previously we emit two or more identical definitions for an
exported symbol if the same /export option is given more than
once. This patch fixes that bug.
llvm-svn: 218433
lib.exe prints a warning if a symbol in a module definition file has
both the PRIVATE attribute and an ordinal like this.
EXPORTS
foo @1 PRIVATE
This patch suppresses that.
llvm-svn: 218395
Currently you can omit the leading underscore from exported
symbol name. LLD will look for mangled name for you. But it won't
look for C++ mangled name.
This patch is to support that.
If "sym" is specified to be exported, the linker looks for not
only "sym", but also "_sym" and "?sym@@<whatever>", so that you
can export a C++ function without decorating it.
llvm-svn: 218355
Exported symbol name resolution is two-pass. In the first pass,
we try to resolve that as a regular undefined symbol. If it fails,
we look for mangled name for the symbol and rename the undefined
symbol and try again.
After all name resolution is done, we look for an atom for each
exported symbol again, to construct the export table. In this
process we try the regular names first, and then try mangled names.
But at this moment we should have knew which name is correct.
This patch is to keep the information we get in the first process
to use it later.
llvm-svn: 218354
The export table descriptor is a data structure to keep information
about the export table. It contains a symbol name, and the name may
or may not be mangled.
We need unmangled names for the export table, so we demangle them
before writing them to the export table.
Obviously this is not a correct round-trip conversion. That could
drop a leading underscore from a symbol because that's
indistinguishable from a mangled name.
What we need to do is to keep unmangled names. This patch does that.
llvm-svn: 218345
/machine:ebc was previously recognized but rejected. Unknown architecture
names were handled differently but eventually rejected too. We don't need
to distinguish them.
llvm-svn: 218344
This patch changes the type of export table set from std::set to
std::vector. The new code is slightly inefficient, but because
export table elements are actually mutable, std::vector is better
here. No functionality change.
llvm-svn: 218343
If two or more /export options are given for the same symbol, we should
always print a warning message and use the first one regardless of other
parameters.
Previously there was a case that the first parameter is not used.
llvm-svn: 218342
A symbol in a module definition file may be annotated with the
PRIVATE keyword like this.
EXPORTS
func PRIVATE
The PRIVATE keyword does not affect the resulting .dll file.
But it prevents the symbol to be listed in the .lib (import
library) file.
llvm-svn: 218273
Atoms are ordered in the output file by ordinal. File has file ordinal,
and atom has atom ordinal which is unique within the file.
No two atoms should have the same combination of ordinals.
However that contract was not satisifed for alias atoms. Alias atom
is defined by /alternatename:sym1=sym2. In this case sym1 is defined
as an alias for sym2. sym1 always got ordinal 0.
As a result LLD failed with an assertion failure.
This patch assigns ordinal to alias atoms.
llvm-svn: 218158
Cache the machine type value of the linking context. We need this in order to
calculate the virtual address of the atom when resolving function symbols.
Windows on ARM must check if the atom is a function and if so, set the Thumb bit
for the returned virtual address. Failure to do so will result in an abnormal
exit due to a trap caused by invalid instruction decoding. The same information
can be used to determine the relocation type that was previously being done via
is64 to select between x86 and x86_64.
llvm-svn: 218106
Accept /machine:arm as an argument. This is changed to support ARM NT.
Although there is no way to differentiate between ARM (Windows CE) and ARM NT
(Windows on ARM), since LLVM currently only supports Windows on ARM, simply take
/machine:arm to mean Windows on ARM.
llvm-svn: 218105
Rather than saving whether we are targeting 64-bit x86 (x86_64), simply convert
the single use of that information to the actual relocation type. This will
permit the selection of non-x86 relocation types (e.g. for WoA support).
Inline the access of the machine type field as it is relatively cheap (a couple
of pointer dereferences) rather than storing the relocation type as a member
variable.
llvm-svn: 218104
When we encounter an unknown machine type, we print out the machine type magic.
However, we would print out the magic in decimal rather than hex. Perform this
conversion to make it easier to identify what machine is unsupported.
llvm-svn: 218103
I made LLD to report an error if /safeseh:no option is given on x64,
but it turned out MSVC link.exe doesn't report error on it.
Removing the check.
llvm-svn: 218077
The contents from section .CRT$XLA to .CRT$XLZ is an array of function
pointers. They are called by the runtime when a new thread is created
or (gracefully) terminated.
You can make your own initialization function to be called by that
mechanism. All you have to do is:
- Define a pointer to a function in a .CRT$XL* section using pragma
- Make an external reference to "__tls_used" symbol
That technique is used in many projects. This patch is to support that.
What this patch does is to set the relative virtual address of
"__tls_used" to the PECOFF directory table. __tls_used is actually a
struct containing pointers to a symbol in .CRT$XLA and another symbol
in .CRT$XLZ. The runtime looks at the directory table, gets the address
of the struct, and call the function pointers between XLA and XLZ.
llvm-svn: 218007
lld shouldn't directly use the COFF header nor should it use raw
coff_symbols. Instead, query the header properties from the
COFFObjectFile and use COFFSymbolRef to abstractly reference COFF
symbols.
This is just enough to get lld compiling with the changes to
llvm::object. Bigobj specific testing will come later.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5280
llvm-svn: 217497
I hope this is the last fix for x64 relocations as I've wasted
a few days on this.
This caused a mysterious issue that some C++ programs crash on
startup. It was because a null pointer is passed as argv to main.
__tmainCRTStartup calls main, but before that it calls all
initialization routines between .text$xc_a and .text$xc_z.
pre_cpp_init is one of such routines, and it is the one who
initializes a heap pointer for argv for later use. That routine
was not called for some reason.
It turned out that __tmainCRTStartup was skipping a block of
code because of the relocation bug. A condition in the function
depends on a memory load, and that memory load was referring
a wrong location. As a result a jump instruction took the
wrong branch, skipping pre_cpp_init and so on.
This patch fixes the issue. Also added more tests to fix them
once and for all.
llvm-svn: 216772
When a relocation is applied to a location, the new value needs
to be added to the existing value at the location. Existing
value is in most cases zero, but if not, the current code does
not work.
llvm-svn: 216680
Image Base field in the PE/COFF header is used as hint for the loader.
If the loader can load the executable at the specified address, that's
fine, but if not, it has to load it at a different address.
If that happens, the loader has to fix up the addresses in the
executable by adding the offset. The list of addresses that need to
be fixed is in .reloc section.
This patch is to emit x64 .reloc section contents.
llvm-svn: 216636
IMAGE_REL_AMD64_ADDR64 relocation should set 64-bit *VA* (virtual
address) instead of *RVA* (relative virtual address), so we have
to add the iamge base to the target's RVA.
llvm-svn: 216512
The implementation of AMD64 relocations was imcomplete
and wrong. On AMD64, we of course have to use AMD64
relocations instead of i386 ones. This patch fixes the
issue.
LLD is now able to link hello64.obj (created from
hello64.asm) against user32.lib and kernel32.lib to
create a Win64 binary.
llvm-svn: 216253
/INCLUDE arguments passed as command line options are handled in the
same way as Unix -u. All option values are converted to an undefined
symbol and added to a dummy input file, so that the specified symbols
are resolved.
One tricky thing on Windows is that the option is also allowed to
appear in the object file's directive section. At the time when
it's being read, all (regular) command line options have already
been processed. We cannot add undefined atoms to the dummy file
anymore.
Previously, we added such /INCLUDE to a set that has already been
processed. As a result the options were ignored.
This patch fixes the issue. Now, /INCLUDE symbols in the directive
section are handled as real undefined symbol in the COFF file.
We create an undefined symbol for each /INCLUDE argument and add
it to the file being parsed.
llvm-svn: 214824
The PE/COFF spec says that SizeOfRawData field in the section
header must be a multiple of FileAlignment from the optional
header. LLD emits 512 as FileAlignment, so it must have been
a multiple of 512.
LLD did not follow that. It emitted the actual section size
without the last padding as the SizeOfRawData. Although it's
not correct as per the spec, the Windows loader doesn't seem
to actually bother to check that. Executables created by LLD
worked fine.
However, tools dealing with executalbe files may expect it
to be the correct value, and one instance of it is mt.exe
tool distributed as a part of Windows SDK.
If CMake is invoked with "-E vs_link_exe" option, it silently
run mt.exe to embed a resource file to the resulting file.
And mt.exe sometimes breaks an input file if it's section
header does not follow the standard. That caused a misterous
error that CMake with Ninja occasionally produces a broken
executable.
This patch fixes the section header to make mt.exe and
other tools happy.
llvm-svn: 214453
The entry point file needs to be processed after all other
object files and before all .lib files. It was processed
after .lib files. That caused an issue that the entry point
function was not resolved from the standard library files.
llvm-svn: 213804
On Windows there are four "main" functions -- main, wmain, WinMain,
or wWinMain. Their parameter types are diffferent. The standard
library provides four different entry functions (i.e.
{w,}{WinMain,main}CRTStartup) for them. You need to use the right
entry routine for your "main" function.
If you give an /entry option, the specified name is used
unconditionally.
Otherwise, the linker needs to select the right one based on
user-supplied entry point function. This can be done after the
linker reads all the input files.
This patch moves the code to determine the entry point function
from the driver to a virtual input file. It also implements the
correct logic for the entry point function selection.
llvm-svn: 213713
The code to manage resolvable symbols is now separated from
ExportedSymbolRenameFile so that other class can reuse it.
I'm planning to use it to find the entry function symbol
based on resolvable symbols.
llvm-svn: 213322
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
This provides support for the autoconfing & make build style.
The format, style and implementation follows that used within the llvm and clang projects.
TODO: implement out-of-source documentation builds.
llvm-svn: 210177
/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
addResolvableSymbols() queues input files, and readAllSymbols() reads
from them. In practice it's currently safe because they are called from
a single thread. But it's not guaranteed.
Also, acquiring the same mutex is needed not to see inconsistent memory
contents that is allowed in the C++ memory model.
llvm-svn: 209254
ExportedSymbolRenameFile is not always used. In most cases we don't
need to read given files at all. So lazy load would help. This doesn't
change the meaining of the program.
llvm-svn: 208818
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
isAlias always returns false and no one is using it. It was
originally added Atom to query if an atom is an alias for another
atom, assuming that alias atoms are different from normal atoms.
We now support atom aliasing, but the way that's implemented is
in a different way than what isAlias assumed. An alias atom is
just a regular defined atom with no content, and it has a layout-
before edge to alias-to atom so that they are layed out at the
same location in the result. So this is dead code, and it doesn't
make much sense to keep it.
llvm-svn: 207884
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
Rui Ueyama