One place where this seems to matter is to make sure the .rsrc section comes
after .text. The Win32 UpdateResource() function can change the contents of
.rsrc. It will move the sections that come after, but if .text gets moved, the
entry point header will not get updated and the executable breaks. This was
found by a test in Chromium.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45260
llvm-svn: 329221
The load configuration directory is a structure whose size varies as the
OS gains additional functionality. To account for this, the structure's
layout begins with a size field; this allows loaders to know which
fields are available.
However, LLD hard-coded the sizes (112 bytes for 64-bit and 64 for
32-bit). This means that we might not inform the loader of all the
pertinent fields or we might claim that there are more fields than are
actually present.
To correctly account for this, the size field must be loaded from the
_load_config_used symbol.
N.B. The COFF spec is either wrong or out of date, the load
configuration directory is not correctly documented in the
specification: it omits the size field.
llvm-svn: 263543
Load Configuration field points to a structure containing information
for SEH. That data strucutre is not created by the linker but provided
by an external file. What we have to do is just to set __load_config_used
address to the header.
llvm-svn: 242427
Hans Wennborg