Some targets (E.g. MachO/arm64) use relocations to fix some CFI record fields
in the eh-frame section. When relocations are used the initial (pre-relocation)
content of the eh-frame section can no longer be interpreted by following the
eh-frame specification. This causes errors in the existing eh-frame parser.
This patch moves eh-frame handling into two LinkGraph passes that are run after
relocations have been parsed (but before they are applied). The first] pass
breaks up blocks in the eh-frame section into per-CFI-record blocks, and the
second parses blocks of (potentially multiple) CFI records and adds the
appropriate edges to any CFI fields that do not have existing relocations.
These passes can be run independently of one another. By handling eh-frame
splitting/fixing with LinkGraph passes we can both re-use existing relocations
for CFI record fields and avoid applying eh-frame fixups before parsing the
section (which would complicate the linker and require extra temporary
allocations of working memory).
In the Atom model the symbols, content and relocations of a relocatable object
file are represented as a graph of atoms, where each Atom represents a
contiguous block of content with a single name (or no name at all if the
content is anonymous), and where edges between Atoms represent relocations.
If more than one symbol is associated with a contiguous block of content then
the content is broken into multiple atoms and layout constraints (represented by
edges) are introduced to ensure that the content remains effectively contiguous.
These layout constraints must be kept in mind when examining the content
associated with a symbol (it may be spread over multiple atoms) or when applying
certain relocation types (e.g. MachO subtractors).
This patch replaces the Atom model in JITLink with a blocks-and-symbols model.
The blocks-and-symbols model represents relocatable object files as bipartite
graphs, with one set of nodes representing contiguous content (Blocks) and
another representing named or anonymous locations (Symbols) within a Block.
Relocations are represented as edges from Blocks to Symbols. This scheme
removes layout constraints (simplifying handling of MachO alt-entry symbols,
and hopefully ELF sections at some point in the future) and simplifies some
relocation logic.
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