gold accepts quoted strings. binutils requires quoted strings for some
kinds of symbols, e.g.:
it accepts quoted symbols with @ in name:
$ echo 'EXTERN("__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.2.5")' > a.script
$ g++ a.script
/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-redhat-linux/4.8.5/../../../../lib64/crt1.o: In function `_start':
(.text+0x20): undefined reference to `main'
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
but rejects them if unquoted:
$ echo 'EXTERN(__libc_start_main@@GLIBC_2.2.5)' > a.script
$ g++ a.script
a.script: file not recognized: File format not recognized
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status
To maintain compatibility with existing linker scripts support quoted
strings in lld as well.
Patch by Lucian Adrian Grijincu.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57987
llvm-svn: 353756
The semantics of the -u flag are to load the lazy symbol named by the flag. We
were previously relying on this behavior falling out of symbol resolution
against a synthetic undefined symbol, but that didn't quite give us the
correct behavior, so we needed a flag to mark symbols created with -u so
we could treat them specially in the writer. However, it's simpler and less
error prone to implement the required behavior directly and remove the flag.
This fixes an issue where symbols loaded with -u would receive hidden
visibility even when the definition in an object file had wider visibility.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D19560
llvm-svn: 267639
Rui Ueyama