This is what link.exe does and lets us avoid needing to worry about
merging output characteristics while adding input sections to output
sections.
With this change we can't process /merge in the same way as before
because sections with different output characteristics can still
be merged into one another. So this change moves the processing of
/merge to just before we assign addresses. In the case where there
are multiple output sections with the same name, link.exe only merges
the first section with the source name into the first section with
the target name, and we do the same.
At the same time I also implemented transitive merging (which means
that /merge:.c=.b /merge:.b=.a merges both .c and .b into .a).
This isn't quite enough though because link.exe has a special case for
.CRT in 32-bit mode: it processes sections whose output characteristics
are DATA | R | W as though the output characteristics were DATA | R
(so that they get merged into things like constructor lists in the
expected way). Chromium has a few such sections, and it turns out
that those sections were causing the problem that resulted in r318699
(merge .xdata into .rdata) being reverted: because of the previous
permission merging semantics, the .CRT sections were causing the entire
.rdata section to become writable, which caused the SEH runtime to
crash because it apparently requires .xdata to be read-only. This
change also implements the same special case.
This should unblock being able to merge .xdata into .rdata by default,
as well as .bss into .data, both of which will be done in followups.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45801
llvm-svn: 330479
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 previous logic to find default entry name or subsystem does not
seem correct (i.e. was not compatible with MSVC linker). Previously,
default entry name was inferred from CRT functions and user-defined
entry functions. Subsystem was inferred from CRT functions.
Default entry name and subsystem are now inferred based on the
following table. Note that we no longer use CRT functions to infer
them.
Entry name Subsystem
main mainCRTStartup console
wmain wmainCRTStartup console
WinMain WinMainCRTStartup windows
wWinMain wWinMainCRTStartup windows
llvm-svn: 240922
.pdata section contains a list of triplets of function start address,
function end address and its unwind information. Linkers have to
sort section contents by function start address and set the section
address to the file header (so that runtime is able to find it and
do binary search.)
This change seems to resolve all but one remaining test failures in
check{,-clang,-lld} when building the entire stuff with clang-cl and
lld-link.
llvm-svn: 240231
Peter Collingbourne