Previously we emitted 20-byte SHA1 hashes. This is overkill
for identifying debug info records, and has the negative side
effect of making object files bigger and links slower. By
using only the last 8 bytes of a SHA1, we get smaller object
files and ~10% faster links.
This modifies the format of the .debug$H section by adding a new
value for the hash algorithm field, so that the linker will still
work when its object files have an old format.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D46855
llvm-svn: 332669
The prefix includes type kind, which is important to preserve. Two
different type leafs can easily have the same interior record contents
as another type.
We ran into this issue in PR37492 where a bitfield type record collided
with a const modifier record. Their contents were bitwise identical, but
their kinds were different.
llvm-svn: 332664
This adds the /DEBUG:GHASH option to LLD which will look for
the existence of .debug$H sections in linker inputs and use them
to accelerate type merging. The clang-cl side has already been
added, so this completes the work necessary to begin experimenting
with this feature.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D40980
llvm-svn: 320719
Zachary Turner