This CL is to mitigate R_X86_64_PC32 relocation overflow problems for huge binaries that has near 4G allocated sections.
By examining those binaries, there're 2 issues contributes to the problem:
1). huge ".dynsym" and ".dynstr" stands in the way between .rodata and .text
2). _init_array_start/end are placed at 0 if no ".init_array" presents, this causes .text relocation against them become more prone to overflow.
This CL addresses 1st problem (the 2nd will be addressed in another CL.) by assigning a smaller sortrank to .dynsym and .dynstr thus they no longer stand in between.
llvm-svn: 332038
Patch removes restriction about moving location counter
backwards outside of output sections declarations.
That may be useful for some apps relying on such scripts,
known example is linux kernel.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D34977
llvm-svn: 307794
Currently we do layout as if non alloc sections had an actual address
and then set it to zero. This produces a few odd results where a
symbol has an address that is inconsistent with the section address.
The simplest way to fix it is probably to just set the address earlier.
The behavior of bfd seems to be similar, but it only sets the non
alloc section address is missing from the linker script or if the
script has an explicit " : 0" setting the address of the output
section (which the default script does).
llvm-svn: 305323
Previously LLD would error out just "ld.lld: error: unable to move location counter backward"
What does not really reveal the place of issue,
Patch adds location to the output.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30187
llvm-svn: 295720
Previously ASSERT we implemented returned expression value.
Ex:
. = ASSERT(0x100);
would set Dot value to 0x100
Form of assert when it is assigned to Dot was implemented for
compatibility with very old GNU ld which required it.
Some scripts in the wild, including linux kernel scripts
use such ASSERTs at the end for doing different checks.
Currently we fail with "unable to move location counter backward"
for such scripts. Patch changes ASSERT to return location counter
value to fix that.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30171
llvm-svn: 295703
George Rimar