Otherwise tools like codesign_allocate will choke. We were already
handling this correctly for the other DYLD_INFO sections.
Doing this correctly is a bit subtle: we don't know if export_size will
be zero until we have run `ExportSection::finalizeContents()`. However,
we must still add the ExportSection to the `__LINKEDIT` segment in order
that it gets sorted during `sortSectionsAndSegments()`.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112589
WordLiteralSection dedupes literals by content.
WordLiteralInputSection::getOffset() used to read a literal at the passed-in
offset and look up this value in the deduping map to find the offset of the
deduped value.
But it's possible that (e.g.) a 16-byte literal's value is accessed 4 bytes in.
To get the offset at that address, we have to get the deduped value at offset 0
and then apply the offset 4 to the result.
(See also WordLiteralSection::finalizeContents() which fills in those maps.)
Only a problem on arm64 because in x86_64 the offset is part of the instruction
instead of a separate ARM64_RELOC_ADDEND relocation. (See bug for more details.)
Fixes PR51999.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112584
**Context:**
This is a second attempt at introducing signature regeneration to llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109840, a script was introduced to test
the validity of a code signature. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803 (now reverted), an effort was made to extract the signature generation behavior out of LLD into a common location for use in llvm-objcopy. In this diff: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109972 it was decided that there was no appropriate common location and that a small amount of duplication to bring signature generation to llvm-objcopy would be better. This diff introduces this duplication.
**Summary**
Prior to this change, if a LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command
was included in the binary passed to llvm-objcopy, the command and
associated section were simply copied and included verbatim in the
new binary. If rest of the binary was modified at all, this results
in an invalid Mach-O file. This change regenerates the signature
rather than copying it.
The code_signature_lc.test test was modified to include the yaml
representation of a small signed MachO executable in order to
effectively test the signature generation.
Reviewed By: alexander-shaposhnikov, #lld-macho
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D111164
Move the functionality in lld that handles writing of the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and associated data section to a central reusable location.
This change is in preparation for another change that modifies llvm-objcopy to reproduce the LC_CODE_SIGNATURE load command and corresponding
data section to maintain the validity of signed macho object files passed through llvm-objcopy.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109803
ICF previously operated only within a given OutputSection. We would
merge all CFStrings first, then merge all regular code sections in a
second phase. This worked fine since CFStrings would never reference
regular `__text` sections. However, I would like to expand ICF to merge
functions that reference unwind info. Unwind info references the LSDA
section, which can in turn reference the `__text` section, so we cannot
perform ICF in phases.
In order to have ICF operate on InputSections spanning multiple
OutputSections, we need a way to distinguish InputSections that are
destined for different OutputSections, so that we don't fold across
section boundaries. We achieve this by creating OutputSections early,
and setting `InputSection::parent` to point to them. This is what
LLD-ELF does. (This change should also make it easier to implement the
`section$start$` symbols.)
This diff also folds InputSections w/o checking their flags, which I
think is the right behavior -- if they are destined for the same
OutputSection, they will have the same flags in the output (even if
their input flags differ). I.e. the `parent` pointer check subsumes the
`flags` check. In practice this has nearly no effect (ICF did not become
any more effective on chromium_framework).
I've also updated ICF.cpp's block comment to better reflect its current
status.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105641
Size-wise, BIND_OPCODE_SET_SYMBOL_TRAILING_FLAGS_IMM is the most
expensive opcode, since it comes with an associated symbol string. We
were previously emitting it once per binding, instead of once per
symbol. This diff groups all bindings for a given symbol together and
ensures we only emit one such opcode per symbol. This matches ld64's
behavior.
While this is a relatively small win on chromium_framework (-72KiB), for
programs that have more dynamic bindings, the difference can be quite
large.
This change is perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105075
This is a pretty big refactoring diff, so here are the motivations:
Previously, ICF ran after scanRelocations(), where we emitting
bind/rebase opcodes etc. So we had a bunch of redundant leftovers after
ICF. Having ICF run before Writer seems like a better design, and is
what LLD-ELF does, so this diff refactors it accordingly.
However, ICF had two dependencies on things occurring in Writer: 1) it
needs literals to be deduplicated beforehand and 2) it needs to know
which functions have unwind info, which was being handled by
`UnwindInfoSection::prepareRelocations()`.
In order to do literal deduplication earlier, we need to add literal
input sections to their corresponding output sections. So instead of
putting all input sections into the big `inputSections` vector, and then
filtering them by type later on, I've changed things so that literal
sections get added directly to their output sections during the 'gather'
phase. Likewise for compact unwind sections -- they get added directly
to the UnwindInfoSection now. This latter change is not strictly
necessary, but makes it easier for ICF to determine which functions have
unwind info.
Adding literal sections directly to their output sections means that we
can no longer determine `inputOrder` from iterating over
`inputSections`. Instead, we store that order explicitly on
InputSection. Bloating the size of InputSection for this purpose would
be unfortunate -- but LLD-ELF has already solved this problem: it reuses
`outSecOff` to store this order value.
One downside of this refactor is that we now make an additional pass
over the unwind info relocations to figure out which functions have
unwind info, since want to know that before `processRelocations()`. I've
made sure to run that extra loop only if ICF is enabled, so there should
be no overhead in non-optimizing runs of the linker.
The upside of all this is that the `inputSections` vector now contains
only ConcatInputSections that are destined for ConcatOutputSections, so
we can clean up a bunch of code that just existed to filter out other
elements from that vector.
I will test for the lack of redundant binds/rebases in the upcoming
cfstring deduplication diff. While binds/rebases can also happen in the
regular `.text` section, they're more common in `.data` sections, so it
seems more natural to test it that way.
This change is perf-neutral when linking chromium_framework.
Reviewed By: oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105044
Previously, we only applied the renames to
ConcatOutputSections.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105079
Fixes PR50637.
Downstream bug: https://crbug.com/1218958
Currently, we split __cstring along symbol boundaries with .subsections_via_symbols
when not deduplicating, and along null bytes when deduplicating. This change splits
along null bytes unconditionally, and preserves original alignment in the non-
deduplicated case.
Removing subsections-section-relocs.s because with this change, __cstring
is never reordered based on the order file.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104919
Literal sections can be deduplicated before running ICF. That makes it
easy to compare them during ICF: we can tell if two literals are
constant-equal by comparing their offsets in their OutputSection.
LLD-ELF takes a similar approach.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104671
...instead of S_NON_LAZY_SYMBOL_POINTERS. This matches ld64.
Part of PR50769.
While here, also remove an old TODO that was done in D87178.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104594
I wanted to see if we would get any perf wins out of this, but
it doesn't seem to be the case. But it still seems worth committing.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104200
We don't need to define any special behavior for this section,
so creating a subclass for it is redundant.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104199
Sort the addresses stored in FunctionStarts section.
Previously we were encoding potentially large numbers (due to unsigned overflow).
Test plan: make check-all
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103662
Conceptually, the implementation is pretty straightforward: we put each
literal value into a hashtable, and then write out the keys of that
hashtable at the end.
In contrast with ELF, the Mach-O format does not support variable-length
literals that aren't strings. Its literals are either 4, 8, or 16 bytes
in length. LLD-ELF dedups its literals via sorting + uniq'ing, but since
we don't need to worry about overly-long values, we should be able to do
a faster job by just hashing.
That said, the implementation right now is far from optimal, because we
add to those hashtables serially. To parallelize this, we'll need a
basic concurrent hashtable (only needs to support concurrent writes w/o
interleave reads), which shouldn't be to hard to implement, but I'd like
to punt on it for now.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.27 4.39 4.315 4.3225 0.033225703
+ 20 4.36 4.82 4.44 4.4845 0.13152846
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.162 +/- 0.0613971
3.74783% +/- 1.42041%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0959262)
This corresponds to binary size savings of 2MB out of 335MB, or 0.6%.
It's not a great tradeoff as-is, but as mentioned our implementation can
be signficantly optimized, and literal dedup will unlock more
opportunities for ICF to identify identical structures that reference
the same literals.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103113
Our implementation draws heavily from LLD-ELF's, which in turn delegates
its string deduplication to llvm-mc's StringTableBuilder. The messiness of
this diff is largely due to the fact that we've previously assumed that
all InputSections get concatenated together to form the output. This is
no longer true with CStringInputSections, which split their contents into
StringPieces. StringPieces are much more lightweight than InputSections,
which is important as we create a lot of them. They may also overlap in
the output, which makes it possible for strings to be tail-merged. In
fact, the initial version of this diff implemented tail merging, but
I've dropped it for reasons I'll explain later.
**Alignment Issues**
Mergeable cstring literals are found under the `__TEXT,__cstring`
section. In contrast to ELF, which puts strings that need different
alignments into different sections, clang's Mach-O backend puts them all
in one section. Strings that need to be aligned have the `.p2align`
directive emitted before them, which simply translates into zero padding
in the object file.
I *think* ld64 extracts the desired per-string alignment from this data
by preserving each string's offset from the last section-aligned
address. I'm not entirely certain since it doesn't seem consistent about
doing this; but perhaps this can be chalked up to cases where ld64 has
to deduplicate strings with different offset/alignment combos -- it
seems to pick one of their alignments to preserve. This doesn't seem
correct in general; we can in fact can induce ld64 to produce a crashing
binary just by linking in an additional object file that only contains
cstrings and no code. See PR50563 for details.
Moreover, this scheme seems rather inefficient: since unaligned and
aligned strings are all put in the same section, which has a single
alignment value, it doesn't seem possible to tell whether a given string
doesn't have any alignment requirements. Preserving offset+alignments
for strings that don't need it is wasteful.
In practice, the crashes seen so far seem to stem from x86_64 SIMD
operations on cstrings. X86_64 requires SIMD accesses to be
16-byte-aligned. So for now, I'm thinking of just aligning all strings
to 16 bytes on x86_64. This is indeed wasteful, but implementation-wise
it's simpler than preserving per-string alignment+offsets. It also
avoids the aforementioned crash after deduplication of
differently-aligned strings. Finally, the overhead is not huge: using
16-byte alignment (vs no alignment) is only a 0.5% size overhead when
linking chromium_framework.
With these alignment requirements, it doesn't make sense to attempt tail
merging -- most strings will not be eligible since their overlaps aren't
likely to start at a 16-byte boundary. Tail-merging (with alignment) for
chromium_framework only improves size by 0.3%.
It's worth noting that LLD-ELF only does tail merging at `-O2`. By
default (at `-O1`), it just deduplicates w/o tail merging. @thakis has
also mentioned that they saw it regress compressed size in some cases
and therefore turned it off. `ld64` does not seem to do tail merging at
all.
**Performance Numbers**
CString deduplication reduces chromium_framework from 250MB to 242MB, or
about a 3.2% reduction.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.99 4.14 4.015 4.0365 0.0492336
Difference at 95.0% confidence
0.0865 +/- 0.027245
2.18987% +/- 0.689746%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0425673)
As expected, cstring merging incurs some non-trivial overhead.
When passing `--no-literal-merge`, it seems that performance is the
same, i.e. the refactoring in this diff didn't cost us.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 3.91 4.03 3.935 3.95 0.034641016
+ 20 3.89 4.02 3.935 3.9435 0.043197831
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102964
Also adds support for live_support sections, no_dead_strip sections,
.no_dead_strip symbols.
Chromium Framework 345MB unstripped -> 250MB stripped
(vs 290MB unstripped -> 236M stripped with ld64).
Doing dead stripping is a bit faster than not, because so much less
data needs to be processed:
% ministat lld_*
x lld_nostrip.txt
+ lld_strip.txt
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.929414 4.07692 4.0269079 4.0089678 0.044214794
+ 10 3.8129408 3.9025559 3.8670411 3.8642573 0.024779651
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.144711 +/- 0.0336749
-3.60967% +/- 0.839989%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0358398)
This interacts with many parts of the linker. I tried to add test coverage
for all added `isLive()` checks, so that some test will fail if any of them
is removed. I checked that the test expectations for the most part match
ld64's behavior (except for live-support-iterations.s, see the comment
in the test). Interacts with:
- debug info
- export tries
- import opcodes
- flags like -exported_symbol(s_list)
- -U / dynamic_lookup
- mod_init_funcs, mod_term_funcs
- weak symbol handling
- unwind info
- stubs
- map files
- -sectcreate
- undefined, dylib, common, defined (both absolute and normal) symbols
It's possible it interacts with more features I didn't think of,
of course.
I also did some manual testing:
- check-llvm check-clang check-lld work with lld with this patch
as host linker and -dead_strip enabled
- Chromium still starts
- Chromium's base_unittests still pass, including unwind tests
Implemenation-wise, this is InputSection-based, so it'll work for
object files with .subsections_via_symbols (which includes all
object files generated by clang). I first based this on the COFF
implementation, but later realized that things are more similar to ELF.
I think it'd be good to refactor MarkLive.cpp to look more like the ELF
part at some point, but I'd like to get a working state checked in first.
Mechanical parts:
- Rename canOmitFromOutput to wasCoalesced (no behavior change)
since it really is for weak coalesced symbols
- Add noDeadStrip to Defined, corresponding to N_NO_DEAD_STRIP
(`.no_dead_strip` in asm)
Fixes PR49276.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103324
The ELF format has the concept of merge sections (marked by SHF_MERGE),
which contain data that can be safely deduplicated. The Mach-O
equivalents are called literal sections (marked by S_CSTRING_LITERALS or
S_{4,8,16}BYTE_LITERALS). While the Mach-O format doesn't use the word
'merge', to avoid confusion, I've renamed our MergedOutputSection to
ConcatOutputSection. I believe it's a more descriptive name too.
This renaming sets the stage for {D102964}.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, alexshap
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102971
* Move `static_asserts` into cpp instead of header file. I noticed they
had been separated from the main class definition in the header, so I
set about to clean that up, then figured it made more sense as part of
the cpp file so as not to incur unnecessary compile-time overhead.
* Remove unnecessary `virtual`s
* Remove unnecessary comment / reword another comment
Extend the range of calls beyond an architecture's limited branch range by first calling a thunk, which loads the far address into a scratch register (x16 on ARM64) and branches through it.
Other ports (COFF, ELF) use multiple passes with successively-refined guesses regarding the expansion of text-space imposed by thunk-space overhead. This MachO algorithm places thunks during MergedOutputSection::finalize() in a single pass using exact thunk-space overheads. Thunks are kept in a separate vector to avoid the overhead of inserting into the `inputs` vector of `MergedOutputSection`.
FIXME:
* arm64-stubs.s test is broken
* add thunk tests
* Handle thunks to DylibSymbol in MergedOutputSection::finalize()
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100818
@thakis pointed out that `mach_header` and `mach_header_64`
actually have the same set of (used) fields, with the 64-bit version
having extra padding. So we can access the fields we need using the
single `mach_header` type instead of using templates to switch between
the two.
I also spotted a potential issue where hasObjCSection tries to parse a
file w/o checking if it does indeed match the target arch... As such,
I've added a quick magic number check to ensure we don't access invalid
memory during `findCommand()`.
Addresses PR50180.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D101724
This diff creates an empty XAR file and copies it into
`__LLVM,__bundle`. Follow-up work will actually populate the contents of
that XAR.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100650
This could probably have been part of D99633, but I split it up to make
things a bit more reviewable. I also fixed some bugs in the implementation that
were masked through integer underflows when operating in 64-bit mode.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99823
This could probably have been part of D99633, but I split it up to make
things a bit more reviewable. I also fixed some bugs in the implementation that
were masked through integer underflows when operating in 64-bit mode.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99823
Benchmarking chromium_framework on a 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W Mac Pro:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.33 4.42 4.37 4.37 0.021026299
+ 20 4.12 4.23 4.18 4.175 0.035318103
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.195 +/- 0.0186025
-4.46224% +/- 0.425686%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0290644)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99998
We had been giving them a string index of zero, which actually corresponds to a
string with a single space due to {D89639}.
This was far from obvious in the old test because llvm-nm doesn't quote the
symbol names, making the empty string look identical to a string of a single
space. `dsymutil -s` quotes its strings, so I've changed the test accordingly.
Fixes llvm.org/PR48714. Thanks @clayborg for the tips!
Reviewed By: clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100003
The main challenge was handling the different on-disk structures (e.g.
`mach_header` vs `mach_header_64`). I tried to strike a balance between
sprinkling `target->wordSize == 8` checks everywhere (branchy = slow, and ugly)
and templatizing everything (causes code bloat, also ugly). I think I struck a
decent balance by judicious use of type erasure.
Note that LLD-ELF has a similar architecture, though it seems to use more templating.
Linking chromium_framework takes about the same time before and after this
change:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.52 4.67 4.595 4.5945 0.044423204
+ 20 4.5 4.71 4.575 4.582 0.056344803
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99633
Pretty simple code-wise. Also threw in some refactoring:
* Put the functionStartSection under Writer instead of InStruct, since
it doesn't need to be accessed outside of Writer
* Adjusted the test to put all files under the temp dir instead of at
the top-level
* Added some CHECK-LABELs to make it clearer where the function starts
data is
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99112
Move some functions closer to their uses. Move detailed address-assignment logic out of the otherwise abstract `Writer::run()`. This prepares the ground for a diff to implement branch range extension thunks.
* `SyntheticSections.cpp`
** move `needsBinding()` and `prepareBranchTarget()` into `Writer.cpp`
** move `addNonLazyBindingEntries()` adjacent to its use.
* `Writer.cpp`
** move address-assignment logic from `Writer::run()` into new function `Writer::assignAddresses()`
** move `needsBinding()` and `prepareBranchTarget()` from `SyntheticSections.cpp`
* `Target.h`
** remove orphaned decls of `prepareSymbolRelocation()` and `validateRelocationInfo()` which were moved to other files in earlier diffs.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98795
They were previously in SyntheticSections.h, but now there are
a bunch of non-synthetic section names in the list.
Also renamed `__functionStarts` to `__func_starts` for uniformity with
other section names + keeps the name under 16 characters (in case we ever
want to write it out as a real section).
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, compnerd
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98586
Previously, it was difficult to write code that handled both synthetic
and regular sections generically. We solve this problem by creating a
fake InputSection at the start of every SyntheticSection.
This refactor allows us to handle DSOHandle like a regular Defined
symbol (since Defined symbols must be attached to an InputSection), and
paves the way for supporting `__mh_*header` symbols. Additionally, it
simplifies our binding/rebase code.
I did have to extend Defined a little -- it now has a `linkerInternal`
flag, to indicate that `___dso_handle` should not be in the final symbol
table.
I've also added some additional testing for `___dso_handle`.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98545
Add first bits for emitting LC_FUNCTION_STARTS.
This is a recommit of f344dfeb with the adjusted test
which should address build bots breakages.
Test plan: make check-all
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97260
The Mach kernel & codesign on arm64 macOS has strict requirements for alignment and sequence of segments and sections. Dyld probably is just as picky, though kernel & codesign reject malformed Mach-O files before dyld ever has a chance.
I developed this diff by incrementally changing alignments & sequences to match the output of ld64. I stopped when my hello-world test program started working: `codesign --verify` succeded, and `execve(2)` didn't immediately fail with `errno == EBADMACHO` = `"Malformed Mach-O file"`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94935
Private extern symbols are used for things scoped to the linkage unit.
They cause duplicate symbol errors (so they're in the symbol table,
unlike TU-scoped truly local symbols), but they don't make it into the
export trie. They are created e.g. by compiling with
-fvisibility=hidden.
If two weak symbols have differing privateness, the combined symbol is
non-private external. (Example: inline functions and some TUs that
include the header defining it were built with
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden and some weren't).
A weak private external symbol implicitly has its "weak" dropped and
behaves like a regular strong private external symbol: Weak is an export
trie concept, and private symbols are not in the export trie.
If a weak and a strong symbol have different privateness, the strong
symbol wins.
If two common symbols have differing privateness, the larger symbol
wins. If they have the same size, the privateness of the symbol seen
later during the link wins (!) -- this is a bit lame, but it matches
ld64 and this behavior takes 2 lines less to implement than the less
surprising "result is non-private external), so match ld64.
(Example: `int a` in two .c files, both built with -fcommon,
one built with -fvisibility=hidden and one without.)
This also makes `__dyld_private` a true TU-local symbol, matching ld64.
To make this work, make the `const char*` StringRefZ ctor to correctly
set `size` (without this, writing the string table crashed when calling
getName() on the __dyld_private symbol).
Mention in CommonSymbol's comment that common symbols are now disabled
by default in clang.
Mention in -keep_private_externs's HelpText that the flag only has an
effect with `-r` (which we don't implement yet -- so this patch here
doesn't regress any behavior around -r + -keep_private_externs)). ld64
doesn't explicitly document it, but the commit text of
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL216146 does, and ld64's
OutputFile::buildSymbolTable() checks `_options.outputKind() ==
Options::kObjectFile` before calling `_options.keepPrivateExterns()`
(the only reference to that function).
Fixes PR48536.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93609
This addresses a lot of the comments in {D89257}. Ideally it'd have been
done in the same diff, but the commits in between make that difficult.
This diff implements:
* N_GSYM and N_STSYM, the STABS for global and static symbols
* Has the STABS reflect the section IDs of their referent symbols
* Ensures we don't fail when encountering absolute symbols or files with
no debug info
* Sorts STABS symbols by file to minimize the number of N_OSO entries
Reviewed By: clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92366
ld64 emits string tables which start with a space and a zero byte. We
match its behavior here since some tools depend on it.
Similar rationale as {D89561}.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89639
Symbols of the same type must be laid out contiguously: following ld64's
lead, we choose to emit all local symbols first, then external symbols,
and finally undefined symbols. For each symbol type, the LC_DYSYMTAB
load command will record the range (start index and total number) of
those symbols in the symbol table.
This work was motivated by the fact that LLDB won't search for debug
info if LC_DYSYMTAB says there are no local symbols (since STABS symbols
are all local symbols). With this change, LLDB is now able to display
the source lines at a given breakpoint when debugging our binaries.
Some tests had to be updated due to local symbol names now appearing in
`llvm-objdump`'s output.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai, clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89285
Debug sections contain a large amount of data. In order not to bloat the size
of the final binary, we remove them and instead emit STABS symbols for
`dsymutil` and the debugger to locate their contents in the object files.
With this diff, `dsymutil` is able to locate the debug info. However, we need
a few more features before `lldb` is able to work well with our binaries --
e.g. having `LC_DYSYMTAB` accurately reflect the number of local symbols,
emitting `LC_UUID`, and more. Those will be handled in follow-up diffs.
Note also that the STABS we emit differ slightly from what ld64 does. First, we
emit the path to the source file as one `N_SO` symbol instead of two. (`ld64`
emits one `N_SO` for the dirname and one of the basename.) Second, we do not
emit `N_BNSYM` and `N_ENSYM` STABS to mark the start and end of functions,
because the `N_FUN` STABS already serve that purpose. @clayborg recommended
these changes based on his knowledge of what the debugging tools look for.
Additionally, this current implementation doesn't accurately reflect the size
of function symbols. It uses the size of their containing sectioins as a proxy,
but that is only accurate if `.subsections_with_symbols` is set, and if there
isn't an `N_ALT_ENTRY` in that particular subsection. I think we have two
options to solve this:
1. We can split up subsections by symbol even if `.subsections_with_symbols`
is not set, but include constraints to ensure those subsections retain
their order in the final output. This is `ld64`'s approach.
2. We could just add a `size` field to our `Symbol` class. This seems simpler,
and I'm more inclined toward it, but I'm not sure if there are use cases
that it doesn't handle well. As such I'm punting on the decision for now.
Reviewed By: clayborg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D89257
Apparently this is used in real programs. I've handled this by reusing
the logic we already have for branch (function call) relocations.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87852
* Implement rebase opcodes. Rebase opcodes tell dyld where absolute
addresses have been encoded in the binary. If the binary is not loaded
at its preferred address, dyld has to rebase these addresses by adding
an offset to them.
* Support `-pie` and use it to test rebase opcodes.
This is necessary for absolute address references in dylibs, bundles etc
to work.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87199
Jez Ng