Previously we applied the LayoutPass to order atoms and then
apply elf::ArrayOrderPass to sort them again. The first pass is
basically supposed to sort atoms in the normal fashion (which
is to sort symbols in the same order as the input files).
The second pass sorts atoms in {init,fini}_array.<priority> by
priority.
The problem is that the LayoutPass is overkill. It analyzes
references between atoms to make a decision how to sort them.
It's slow, hard to understand, and above all, it doesn't seem
that we need its feature for ELF in the first place.
This patch remove the LayoutPass from ELF pass list. Now all
reordering is done in elf::OrderPass. That pass sorts atoms by
{init,fini}_array, and if they are not in the special section,
they are ordered as the same order as they appear in the command
line. The new code is far easier to understand, faster, and
still able to create valid executables.
Unlike the previous layout pass, elf::OrderPass doesn't count
any attributes of an atom (e.g. permissions) except its
position. It's OK because the writer takes care of them if we
have to.
This patch changes the order of final output, although that's
benign. Tests are updated.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D7278
llvm-svn: 227666
The LLD linker searches initializer and finalizer function names
and emits DT_INIT/DT_FINI dynamic table tags to point to these symbols.
The -init/-fini command line options override initializer ("_init") and
finalizer ("_fini") function names used by default.
Now the -init/-fini options do not affect .init_array/.fini_array
sections. The corresponding code has been removed.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D6578
llvm-svn: 223917
The sections .rela/.rel.(*) have a alignment of 2 in the final image created by
the linker. This needs to be properly set to the right alignment depending on
the architecture(32/64bits).
llvm-svn: 201740
This adds an option --output-filetype that can be set to either
YAML/Native(case insensitive). The linker would create the outputs
associated with the type specified by the user.
Changes all the tests to use the new option.
llvm-svn: 191183
This also makes it support debugging executables built with lld.
Initial patch done by Bigcheese. This is only a revised patch to
have the functionality in the Writer.
llvm-svn: 191032
We need to order atoms that exist in the same chain. This is to make sure that
the command line order is preserved when we emit the atoms to the output file.
Credits: BigCheese for finding the bug.
Adds a test which otherwise would fail.
llvm-svn: 190608
This adds an API to the LinkingContext for flavors to add Internal files
containing atoms that need to appear in the YAML output as well, when -emit-yaml
switch is used.
Flavors can add more internal files for other options that are needed.
llvm-svn: 189718
be laid out by their ordinal overrides first, there was a bug that two atoms may
get the same override index due to which atoms were not ordered properly. This
commit fixes the problem.
Now the atoms are ordered by
- Section Position hints
- Atom override (Using layout-after/layout-before/in-group)
- Content Permissions
- Content Type
- File Ordinal
This also fixes the problem of running c++ static executables that
was broken by an earlier patch.
llvm-svn: 182494
Layoutpass by ordering atoms if they appear in the override
list first and then looking at the way of ordering atoms in
the default way.
The fix also fixes issues with the sizes of the sections,
that appear in the output properly too.
The commit also adds a testcase(orderatoms-by-override.test)
to test it and fixes all the other relevant testcases.
llvm-svn: 181605
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
Rui Ueyama