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
An upcoming commit will change how we choose to reference a dylib. Currently
dylibs are only given an LC_LOAD_DYLIB in the final image if an atom is used.
This is different from ld64 which adds the load command when the dylib is referenced
on the cmdline.
In order to change this behaviour, we need libSystem.yaml to actually contain a mach header
so that it is parsed as a dylib, instead of currently being parsed as a normalised file.
To get a mach header, we also require an arch, so now we have one libsystem per arch and
all the tests have been updated to choose the correct one.
llvm-svn: 278372
The .o path always makes sure to store a power of 2 value in the
Section alignment. However, the YAML code didn't verify this.
Added verification and updated all the tests which had a 3 but meant
to have 2^3.
llvm-svn: 264228
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
Darwin uses two-level-namespace lookup for symbols which means the static
linker records where each symbol must be found at runtime. Thus defining a
symbol in a dylib loaded earlier will not effect where symbols needed by
later dylibs will be found. Instead overriding is done through a section
of type S_INTERPOSING which contains tuples of <interposer, interposee>.
llvm-svn: 221424
Jez Ng