The "undefined symbol" error message from lld-link displays up to 3 references to that symbol, and the number of extra references not shown.
This patch removes the computation of the strings for those extra references.
It fixes a freeze of lld-link we accidentally encountered when activating asan on a large project, without linking with the asan library.
In that case, __asan_report_load8 was referenced more than 2 million times, causing the computation of that many display strings, of which only 3 were used.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83510
As of a while ago, lld groups all undefined references to a single
symbol in a single diagnostic. Back then, I made it so that we
print up to 10 references to each undefined symbol.
Having used this for a while, I never wished there were more
references, but I sometimes found that this can print a lot of
output. lld prints up to 10 diagnostics by default, and if
each has 10 references (which I've seen in practice), and each
undefined symbol produces 2 (possibly very long) lines of output,
that's over 200 lines of error output.
Let's try it with just 3 references for a while and see how
that feels in practice.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D77017
lld/coff already deduplicated undefined symbols on a TU level: It would
group all references to a symbol from a single TU. This makes it so that
references from all TUs to a single symbol are grouped together.
Since lld/coff almost did what I thought it did already, the patch is
much smaller than the elf version. The only not local change is that
getSymbolLocations() now returns a vector<string> instead of a string,
so that the undefined symbol reporting code can know how many references
to a symbol exist in a given TU.
Fixes PR42260 for lld/coff.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D63646
llvm-svn: 364285
Sylvain Audi