If a section is rw, it is irrelevant if the dynamic linker will write to
it or not.
It looks like llvm implemented this because gcc was doing it. It looks
like gcc implemented this in the hope that it would put all the
relocated items close together and speed up the dynamic linker.
There are two problem with this:
* It doesn't work. Both bfd and gold will map .data.rel to .data and
concatenate the input sections in the order they are seen.
* If we want a feature like that, it can be implemented directly in the
linker since it knowns where the dynamic relocations are.
llvm-svn: 253436
These MachO file directives are used by linkers and other tools to provide
compatibility information, much like the existing .ios_version_min and
.macosx_version_min.
llvm-svn: 251569
Recommit r250342: move coal-sections-powerpc.s to subdirectory for powerpc.
Some background on why we don't have to use *coal* sections anymore:
Long ago when C++ was new and "weak" had not been standardized, an attempt was
made in cctools to support C++ inlines that can be coalesced by putting them
into their own section (TEXT/textcoal_nt instead of TEXT/text).
The current macho linker supports the weak-def bit on any symbol to allow it to
be coalesced, but the compiler still puts weak-def functions/data into alternate
section names, which the linker must map back to the base section name.
This patch makes changes that are necessary to prevent the compiler from using
the "coal" sections and have it use the non-coal sections instead when the
target architecture is not powerpc:
TEXT/textcoal_nt instead use TEXT/text
TEXT/const_coal instead use TEXT/const
DATA/datacoal_nt instead use DATA/data
If the target is powerpc, we continue to use the *coal* sections since anyone
targeting powerpc is probably using an old linker that doesn't have support for
the weak-def bits.
Also, have the assembler issue a warning if it encounters a *coal* section in
the assembly file and inform the users to use the non-coal sections instead.
rdar://problem/14265330
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13188
llvm-svn: 250370
Recommit r250342: add -arch=ppc32 to the RUN lines of powerpc tests.
Some background on why we don't have to use *coal* sections anymore:
Long ago when C++ was new and "weak" had not been standardized, an attempt was
made in cctools to support C++ inlines that can be coalesced by putting them
into their own section (TEXT/textcoal_nt instead of TEXT/text).
The current macho linker supports the weak-def bit on any symbol to allow it to
be coalesced, but the compiler still puts weak-def functions/data into alternate
section names, which the linker must map back to the base section name.
This patch makes changes that are necessary to prevent the compiler from using
the "coal" sections and have it use the non-coal sections instead when the
target architecture is not powerpc:
TEXT/textcoal_nt instead use TEXT/text
TEXT/const_coal instead use TEXT/const
DATA/datacoal_nt instead use DATA/data
If the target is powerpc, we continue to use the *coal* sections since anyone
targeting powerpc is probably using an old linker that doesn't have support for
the weak-def bits.
Also, have the assembler issue a warning if it encounters a *coal* section in
the assembly file and inform the users to use the non-coal sections instead.
rdar://problem/14265330
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13188
llvm-svn: 250349
Some background on why we don't have to use *coal* sections anymore:
Long ago when C++ was new and "weak" had not been standardized, an attempt was
made in cctools to support C++ inlines that can be coalesced by putting them
into their own section (TEXT/textcoal_nt instead of TEXT/text).
The current macho linker supports the weak-def bit on any symbol to allow it to
be coalesced, but the compiler still puts weak-def functions/data into alternate
section names, which the linker must map back to the base section name.
This patch makes changes that are necessary to prevent the compiler from using
the "coal" sections and have it use the non-coal sections instead when the
target architecture is not powerpc:
TEXT/textcoal_nt instead use TEXT/text
TEXT/const_coal instead use TEXT/const
DATA/datacoal_nt instead use DATA/data
If the target is powerpc, we continue to use the *coal* sections since anyone
targeting powerpc is probably using an old linker that doesn't have support for
the weak-def bits.
Also, have the assembler issue a warning if it encounters a *coal* section in
the assembly file and inform the users to use the non-coal sections instead.
rdar://problem/14265330
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D13188
llvm-svn: 250342
Take a StringRef instead of a "const char *".
Take a "std::error_code &" instead of a "std::string &" for error.
A create static method would be even better, but this patch is already a bit too
big.
llvm-svn: 216393
Use 0 for the invalid buffer instead of -1/~0 and switch to unsigned
representation to enable more idiomatic usage.
Also introduce a trivial SourceMgr::getMainFileID() instead of hard-coding 0/1
to identify the main file.
llvm-svn: 212398
Allow object files to be tagged with a version-min load command for iOS
or MacOSX.
Teach macho-dump to understand the version-min load commands for
testcases.
rdar://11337778
llvm-svn: 204190
Summary:
llvm/MC/MCSectionMachO.h and llvm/Support/MachO.h both had the same
definitions for the section flags. Instead, grab the definitions out of
support.
No functionality change.
Reviewers: grosbach, Bigcheese, rafael
Reviewed By: rafael
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2998
llvm-svn: 203211
After this I will set the default back to F_None. The advantage is that
before this patch forgetting to set F_Binary would corrupt a file on windows.
Forgetting to set F_Text produces one that cannot be read in notepad, which
is a better failure mode :-)
llvm-svn: 202052
with a debug build) with this buggy .indirect_symbol directive usage:
% cat test.s
x: .indirect_symbol _y
The assertion is because it is trying to get the symbol index for the
symbol _y when it is writing out the indirect symbol table. This line of
code in MachObjectWriter::WriteObject() :
Write32(Asm.getSymbolData(*it->Symbol).getIndex());
And while there is a symbol _y it does not have any getSymbolData set which
is only done in MachObjectWriter::BindIndirectSymbols() for pointer sections
or stub sections. I added a check and an error in there to catch this in case
something slips through.
But to get a better error the parser should detect when a .indirect_symbol
directive is used and it is not in a pointer section or stub section. To make
that work I moved the handling of the indirect symbol out of the target
independent AsmParser code into the DarwinAsmParser code that can check
for the proper Mach-O section types.
rdar://14825505
llvm-svn: 189497
Sooooo many of these had incorrect or strange main module includes.
I have manually inspected all of these, and fixed the main module
include to be the nearest plausible thing I could find. If you own or
care about any of these source files, I encourage you to take some time
and check that these edits were sensible. I can't have broken anything
(I strictly added headers, and reordered them, never removed), but they
may not be the headers you'd really like to identify as containing the
API being implemented.
Many forward declarations and missing includes were added to a header
files to allow them to parse cleanly when included first. The main
module rule does in fact have its merits. =]
llvm-svn: 169131
There are situations where inline ASM may want to change the section -- for
instance, to create a variable in the .data section. However, it cannot do this
without (potentially) restoring to the wrong section. E.g.:
asm volatile (".section __DATA, __data\n\t"
".globl _fnord\n\t"
"_fnord: .quad 1f\n\t"
".text\n\t"
"1:" :::);
This may be wrong if this is inlined into a function that has a "section"
attribute. The user should use `.pushsection' and `.popsection' here instead.
The addition of `.previous' is added for completeness.
<rdar://problem/12048387>
llvm-svn: 161477
Use a dedicated MachO load command to annotate data-in-code regions.
This is the same format the linker produces for final executable images,
allowing consistency of representation and use of introspection tools
for both object and executable files.
Data-in-code regions are annotated via ".data_region"/".end_data_region"
directive pairs, with an optional region type.
data_region_directive := ".data_region" { region_type }
region_type := "jt8" | "jt16" | "jt32" | "jta32"
end_data_region_directive := ".end_data_region"
The previous handling of ARM-style "$d.*" labels was broken and has
been removed. Specifically, it didn't handle ARM vs. Thumb mode when
marking the end of the section.
rdar://11459456
llvm-svn: 157062
Rafael Espindola