Change the default to facilitate GC for metadata section usage, so that they
don't need SHF_LINK_ORDER or SHF_GROUP just to drop the unhelpful rule (if they
want to be unconditionally retained, use SHF_GNU_RETAIN
(`__attribute__((retain))`) or linker script `KEEP`).
The dropped SHF_GROUP special case makes the behavior of -z start-stop-gc and -z
nostart-stop-gc closer to GNU ld>=2.37 (https://sourceware.org/PR27451).
However, we default to -z start-stop-gc (which actually matches more closely to
GNU ld before 2015-10 https://sourceware.org/PR19167), which is different from
modern GNU ld (which has the unhelpful rule to work around glibc). As a
compensation, we special case `__libc_` sections as a workaround for glibc<2.34
(https://sourceware.org/PR27492).
Since -z start-stop-gc as the default actually matches the traditional GNU ld
behavior, there isn't much to be aware of. There was a systemd usage which has
been fixed by https://github.com/systemd/systemd/pull/19144
Summary: llvm-readobj/readelf accepts both -s and -S as aliases for --sections. However with GNU readelf only -S means --section, and -s means --symbols. I would like to make llvm-readelf more compatible.
Reviewers: MaskRay, espindola
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, steven_wu, dexonsmith, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54118
llvm-svn: 346164
With this we only ask LTO to keep a C named section if there is a
__start_ or __end symbol.
This is not as strict as lld's --gc-sections, but is as good as we can
get without having a far more detailed ir summary.
llvm-svn: 309232
Fangrui Song