Previously, LLD-produced executables had IAT (Import Address Table) and
ILT (Import Lookup Table) as separate chunks of data, although their
contents are identical. My interpretation of the COFF spec when I wrote
the COFF linker is that they need to be separate tables even though they
are the same.
But Peter found that the Windows loader is fine with executables in
which IAT and ILT are merged. This is a patch to merge IAT and ILT.
I confirmed that an lld-link self-hosted with this patch works fine.
Fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=33064
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33326
llvm-svn: 303374
The import lists are already binned by DLL name, so there's no need to
deduplicate here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D33330
llvm-svn: 303371
We've been using make<> to allocate new objects in ELF. We have
the same function in COFF, but we didn't use it widely due to
negligence. This patch uses the function in COFF to close the gap
between ELF and COFF.
llvm-svn: 303357
In many places we assumed that is64() means AMD64 and i386 otherwise.
This assumption is not sound because Windows also supports ARM.
The linker doesn't support ARM yet, but this is a first step.
llvm-svn: 243188
There were a few issues with the previous delay-import tables.
- "Attribute" field should have been 1 instead of 0.
(I don't know the meaning of this field, though.)
- LEA and CALL operands had wrong addresses.
- Address tables are in .didat (which is read-only).
They should have been in .data.
llvm-svn: 240837
DLLs are usually resolved at process startup, but you can
delay-load them by passing /delayload option to the linker.
If a /delayload is specified, the linker has to create data
which is similar to regular import table.
One notable difference is that the pointers in a delay-load
import table are originally pointing to thunks that resolves
themselves. Each thunk loads a DLL, resolve its name, and then
overwrites the pointer with the result so that subsequent
function calls directly call a desired function. The linker
has to emit thunks.
llvm-svn: 240250
DLL files are in the same format as executables but they have export tables.
The format of the export table is described in PE/COFF spec section 5.3.
A new class, EdataContents, takes care of creating chunks for export tables.
What we need to do is to parse command line flags for dllexports, and then
instantiate the class to create chunks. For the writer, export table chunks
are opaque data -- it just add chunks to .edata section.
llvm-svn: 239869
Reid Kleckner