Not only entry point symbol but also symbols specified by /include
option must be preserved, as they will never be dead-stripped.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10220
llvm-svn: 239005
Instead of returning non-categorized errors, return categorized errors.
All uses of make_dynamic_error_code are removed.
Because we don't have error reporting mechanism, I just chose to print out
error messages to stderr, and then return an error object. Not sure if
that's the right thing to do, but at least it seems practical.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10129
llvm-svn: 238714
Previously, this feature was implemented using a special type of
undefined symbol, in addition to an intricate way to make the resolver
read a virtual file containing that renaming symbols.
Now the feature is directly handled by the symbol table.
The symbol table has a function, rename(), to rename symbols, whose
definition is 4 lines long. Symbol renaming is naturally modeled using
Symbol and SymbolBody.
llvm-svn: 238696
It does not involve notions of virtual archives or virtual files,
nor store a list of undefined symbols somewhere else to consume them later.
We did that before. In this patch, undefined symbols are just added to
the symbol table, which now can be done in very few lines of code.
llvm-svn: 238681
Previously the main linker routine is just a non-member function.
We store some context information to the Config object.
This patch makes it belong to Driver.
llvm-svn: 238677
`main` is not the only main function in Windows. You can choose one
from these four -- {w,}{WinMain,main}. There are four different entry
point functions for them, {w,}{WinMain,main}CRTStartup, respectively.
The linker needs to choose the right one depending on which `main`
function is defined.
llvm-svn: 238667
This is an initial patch for a section-based COFF linker.
The patch has 2300 lines of code including comments and blank lines.
Before diving into details, you want to start from reading README
because it should give you an overview of the design.
All important things are written in the README file, so I write
summary here.
- The linker is already able to self-link on Windows.
- It's significantly faster than the existing implementation.
The existing one takes 5 seconds to link LLD on my machine,
while the new one only takes 1.2 seconds, even though the new
one is not multi-threaded yet. (And a proof-of-concept multi-
threaded version was able to link it in 0.5 seconds.)
- It uses much less memory (250MB vs. 2GB virtual memory space
to self-host).
- IMHO the new code is much simpler and easier to read than
the existing PE/COFF port.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10036
llvm-svn: 238458
Rui Ueyama