The new Darwin backend for LLD is now able to link reasonably large
real-world programs on x86_64. For instance, we have achieved
self-hosting for the X86_64 target, where all LLD tests pass when
building lld with itself on macOS. As such, we would like to make it the
default back-end.
The new port is now named `ld64.lld`, and the old port remains
accessible as `ld64.lld.darwinold`
This [annoucement email][1] has some context. (But note that, unlike
what the email says, we are no longer doing this as part of the LLVM 12
branch cut -- instead we will go into LLVM 13.)
Numerous mechanical test changes were required to make this change; in
the interest of creating something that's reviewable on Phabricator,
I've split out the boring changes into a separate diff (D95905). I plan to
merge its contents with those in this diff before landing.
(@gkm made the original draft of this diff, and he has agreed to let me
take over.)
[1]: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-January/147665.html
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95204
loadFile could load mulitple files just because yaml has a feature for
putting multiple documents in one file.
Designing a linker around what yaml can do seems like a bad idea to
me. This patch changes it to read a single file.
There are further improvements to be done to the api and they
will follow shortly.
llvm-svn: 235724
On Darwin at runtime, dyld will prefer to use the export trie of a dylib instead
of the traditional symbol table (which is large and requires a binary search).
This change enables the linker to generate an export trie and to prefer it if
found in a dylib being linked against. This also simples the yaml for dylibs
because the yaml form of the trie can be reduced to just a sequence of names.
llvm-svn: 217066
Mach-o uses "two-level namespace" where each undefined symbols is associated
with a specific dylib. This means at runtime the loader (dyld) does need to
search all loaded dylibs for that symbol but rather just the one specified.
Now that llvm-nm -m prints out that info, properly set that info, and test
it in the hello world test cases.
llvm-svn: 215598
All architecture specific handling is now done in the appropriate
ArchHandler subclass.
The StubsPass and GOTPass have been simplified. All architecture specific
variations in stubs are now encoded in a table which is vended by the
current ArchHandler.
llvm-svn: 213187
Jez Ng