Similarly to how undefined symbol diagnostics were changed in D128184,
we now show where in the source file duplicate symbols are defined at:
ld64.lld: error: duplicate symbol: _foo
>> defined in bar.c:42
>> /path/to/bar.o
>> defined in baz.c:1
>> /path/to/libbaz.a(baz.o)
For objects that don't contain DWARF data, the format is unchanged.
A slight difference to undefined symbol diagnostics is that we don't
print the name of the symbol on the third line, as it's already
contained on the first line.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128425
This reverts commit 942f4e3a7c.
The additional change required to avoid the assertion errors seen
previously is:
--- a/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
+++ b/lld/MachO/ICF.cpp
@@ -443,7 +443,9 @@ void macho::foldIdenticalSections() {
/*relocVA=*/0);
isec->data = copy;
}
- } else {
+ } else if (!isEhFrameSection(isec)) {
+ // EH frames are gathered as hashables from unwindEntry above; give a
+ // unique ID to everything else.
isec->icfEqClass[0] = ++icfUniqueID;
}
}
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
== Background ==
`llvm-mc` generates unwind info in both compact unwind and DWARF
formats. LLD already handles the compact unwind format; this diff gets
us close to handling the DWARF format properly.
== Caveats ==
It's not quite done yet, but I figure it's worth getting this reviewed
and landed first as it's shaping up to be a fairly large code change.
**Known limitations of the current code:**
* Only works for x86_64, for which `llvm-mc` emits "abs-ified"
relocations as described in 618def651b.
`llvm-mc` emits regular relocations for ARM EH frames, which we do not
yet handle correctly.
Since the feature is not ready for real use yet, I've gated it behind a
flag that only gets toggled on during test suite runs. With most of the
new code disabled, we see just a hint of perf regression, so I don't
think it'd be remiss to land this as-is:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.926 ± 0.168 1.979 ± 0.117 [ -1.2% .. +6.6%]
user_time 3.590 ± 0.033 3.606 ± 0.028 [ +0.0% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 7.104 ± 0.184 7.179 ± 0.151 [ -0.2% .. +2.3%]
samples 30 31
== Design ==
Like compact unwind entries, EH frames are also represented as regular
ConcatInputSections that get pointed to via `Defined::unwindEntry`. This
allows them to be handled generically by e.g. the MarkLive and ICF
code. (But note that unlike compact unwind subsections, EH frame
subsections do end up in the final binary.)
In order to make EH frames "look like" a regular ConcatInputSection,
some processing is required. First, we need to split the `__eh_frame`
section along EH frame boundaries rather than along symbol boundaries.
We do this by decoding the length field of each EH frame. Second, the
abs-ified relocations need to be turned into regular Relocs.
== Next Steps ==
In order to support EH frames on ARM targets, we will either have to
teach LLD how to handle EH frames with explicit relocs, or we can try to
make `llvm-mc` emit abs-ified relocs for ARM as well. I'm hoping to do
the latter as I think it will make the LLD implementation both simpler
and faster to execute.
== Misc ==
The `obj-file-with-stabs.s` test had to be updated as the previous
version would trip assertion errors in the code. It appears that in our
attempt to produce a minimal YAML test input, we created a file with
invalid EH frame data. I've fixed this by re-generating the YAML and not
doing any hand-pruning of it.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Roger
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123435
{D123302} got me looking deeper at `includeInSymtab`. I thought it was a
little odd that there were excluded (live) symbols for which
`includeInSymtab` was false; we shouldn't have so many different ways to
exclude a symbol. As such, this diff makes the `L`-prefixed-symbol
exclusion code use `includeInSymtab` too. (Note that as part of our
support for `__eh_frame`, we will also be excluding all `__eh_frame`
symbols from the symtab in a future diff.)
Another thing I noticed is that the `emitStabs` code never has to deal
with excluded symbols because `SymtabSection::finalize()` already
filters them out. As such, I've updated the comments and asserts from
{D123302} to reflect this.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123433
This matches ld64, and makes dsymutil work better with lld's output.
Fixes PR54783, see there for details.
Reduces time needed to run dsymutil on Chromium Framework from 8m30s
(which is already down from 26 min with D123218) to 6m30s and removes
many lines of "could not find object file symbol for symbol" from dsymutil output
(previously: several MB of those messages, now dsymutil is completely silent).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D123252
All references to interposable symbols can be redirected at runtime to
point to a different symbol definition (with the same name). For
example, if both dylib A and B define symbol _foo, and we load A before
B at runtime, then all references to _foo within dylib B will point to
the definition in dylib A.
ld64 makes all extern symbols interposable when linking with
`-flat_namespace`.
TODO 1: Support `-interposable` and `-interposable_list`, which should
just be a matter of parsing those CLI flags and setting the
`Defined::interposable` bit.
TODO 2: Set Reloc::FinalDefinitionInLinkageUnit correctly with this info
(we are currently not setting it at all, so we're erring on the
conservative side, but we should help the LTO backend generate more
optimal code.)
Reviewed By: modimo, MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D119294
Previously, we only allowed this for DylibSymbols. However, in order to
properly support `-flat_namespace` as well as `-interposable`, we need
to allow this for Defined symbols too. Therefore we hoist the
`lazyBindOffset` and the `stubsHelperIndex` into the parent Symbol
class.
The actual change to support interposition under `-flat_namespace` is in
{D119294}; the NFC changes here have been split out for easier review.
Perf regression isn't stat sig on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W linking
chromium_framework:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.227 ± 0.021 1.234 ± 0.031 [ -0.3% .. +1.5%]
user_time 3.665 ± 0.036 3.674 ± 0.035 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 4.596 ± 0.055 4.609 ± 0.064 [ -0.3% .. +0.9%]
samples 34 47
Max RSS regression is barely stat sig:
base diff difference (95% CI)
time 1003664356.324 ± 15404053.912 1010380403.613 ± 10578309.455 [ +0.0% .. +1.3%]
samples 37 31
Reviewed By: modimo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D121351
This was based off @thakis' draft in {D103517}. I employed templates to ensure
the support for `-why_live` wouldn't slow down the regular non-why-live code
path.
No stat sig perf difference on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.195 ± 0.015 1.199 ± 0.022 [ -0.4% .. +1.0%]
user_time 3.716 ± 0.022 3.701 ± 0.025 [ -0.7% .. -0.1%]
wall_time 4.606 ± 0.034 4.597 ± 0.046 [ -0.6% .. +0.2%]
samples 44 37
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120377
In ld.lld, when an ObjFile/BitcodeFile is read in --start-lib state, the file is
given archive semantics. --end-lib closes the previous --start-lib. A build
system can use this feature as an alternative to archives. This patch ports
the feature to lld-macho.
--start-lib and --end-lib are positional, unlike usual ld64 options.
I think the slight drawback does not matter as (a) reusing option names
make build systems convenient (b) `--start-lib a.o b.o --end-lib` conveys more
information than an alternative design: `-objlib a.o -objlib b.o` because
--start-lib makes it clear which objects are in the same conceptual archive.
This provides flexibility (c) `-objlib`/`-filelist` interaction may be weird.
Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/52931
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Jez Ng, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116913
D116913 will add LazyObject. Rename LazySymbol to LazyArchive to avoid confusion
and mirror ELF.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Jez Ng
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116914
In order to keep signal:noise high for the `__eh_frame` diff, I have teased-out the NFC changes and put them here.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D114017
As discussed in https://reviews.llvm.org/D113809#3128636. It's a bit
unfortunate to move the asserts away from the structs whose sizes
they're checking, but it's a far better developer experience when one of
the asserts is violated, because you get a single error instead of every
single source file including the header erroring out.
We can lay out Symbol more optimally to reduce its size from 56 bytes to
48 bytes by eliminating unnecessary padding, and we can lay out Defined
such that its bitfield members are placed in the tail padding of Symbol
(on ABIs which support this), to reduce it from 96 bytes to 80 bytes (8
bytes from the Symbol reduction, and 8 bytes from the tail padding
reuse).
This is perf-neutral for an internal app (results from two different
machines):
```
smol-syms baseline difference (95% CI)
sys_time 7.430 ± 0.202 7.440 ± 0.193 [ -2.6% .. +2.9%]
user_time 21.443 ± 0.513 21.206 ± 0.396 [ -3.3% .. +1.1%]
wall_time 20.453 ± 0.534 20.222 ± 0.488 [ -3.7% .. +1.5%]
samples 9 8
smol-syms baseline difference (95% CI)
sys_time 3.011 ± 0.050 3.040 ± 0.052 [ -0.4% .. +2.3%]
user_time 10.416 ± 0.075 10.496 ± 0.091 [ +0.1% .. +1.4%]
wall_time 12.229 ± 0.144 12.354 ± 0.192 [ -0.1% .. +2.1%]
samples 14 13
```
However, on the first machine, it reduces maximum resident set size by
65.9 MB (0.8%, from 7.92 GB to 7.85 GB). On the second machine, it
reduces it by 92 MB (1.4%, from 6.40 GB to 6.31 GB).
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113813
autohide symbols behaves similarly to private_extern symbols.
However, LD64 allows exporting autohide symbols. LLD currently does not.
This patch allows LLD to export them.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113167
Symbol's subclasses all have an additional bitfield of type uint8_t (RefState enum).
For the bitfields in the same block tomerge, they should be of the same type. (clang/gcc will work, but others like MSVC does not)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113040
Having to remember to call `canonical()` all over the place is
error-prone; let's do it in a centralized location instead. It also
appears to improve performance slightly.
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 0.984 ± 0.009 0.983 ± 0.014 [ -0.8% .. +0.6%]
user_time 6.508 ± 0.035 6.475 ± 0.036 [ -0.8% .. -0.2%]
wall_time 5.321 ± 0.034 5.300 ± 0.033 [ -0.7% .. -0.1%]
samples 36 23
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112687
Compact unwind entries (CUEs) contain pointers to their respective
function symbols. However, during the link process, it's far more useful
to have pointers from the function symbol to the CUE than vice versa.
This diff adds that pointer in the form of `Defined::compactUnwind`.
In particular, when doing dead-stripping, we want to mark CUEs live when
their function symbol is live; and when doing ICF, we want to dedup
sections iff the symbols in that section have identical CUEs. In both
cases, we want to be able to locate the symbols within a given section,
as well as locate the CUEs belonging to those symbols. So this diff also
adds `InputSection::symbols`.
The ultimate goal of this refactor is to have ICF support dedup'ing
functions with unwind info, but that will be handled in subsequent
diffs. This diff focuses on simplifying `-dead_strip` --
`findFunctionsWithUnwindInfo` is no longer necessary, and
`Defined::isLive()` is now a lot simpler. Moreover, UnwindInfoSection no
longer has to check for dead CUEs -- we simply avoid adding them in the
first place.
Additionally, we now support stripping of dead LSDAs, which follows
quite naturally since `markLive()` can now reach them via the CUEs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D109944
We lost the `used` bit on the Undefined when we replaced it with a DylibSymbol
in treatUndefined().
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D106565
We have been creating many ConcatInputSections with identical values due
to .subsections_via_symbols. This diff factors out the identical values
into a Shared struct, to reduce memory consumption and make copying
cheaper.
I also changed `callSiteCount` from a uint32_t to a 31-bit field to save an
extra word.
All in all, this takes InputSection from 120 to 72 bytes (and
ConcatInputSection from 160 to 112 bytes), i.e. 30% size reduction in
ConcatInputSection.
Numbers for linking chromium_framework on my 3.2 GHz 16-Core Intel Xeon W:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.14 4.24 4.18 4.183 0.027548999
+ 20 4.04 4.11 4.075 4.0775 0.018027756
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.1055 +/- 0.0149005
-2.52211% +/- 0.356215%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0232803)
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D105305
`outSecFileOff` and the associated `getFileOffset()` accessors were
unnecessary.
For all the cases we care about, `outSecFileOff` is the same as
`outSecOff`. The only time they deviate is if there are zerofill
sections within a given segment. But since zerofill sections are always
at the end of a segment, the only sections where the two values deviate
are zerofill sections themselves. And we never actually query the
outSecFileOff of zerofill sections.
As for `getFileOffset()`, the only place it was being used was to
calculate the offset of the entry symbol. However, we can compute that
value by just taking the difference between the address of the entry
symbol and the address of the Mach-O header. In fact, this appears to be
what ld64 itself does. This difference is the same as the file offset as
long as there are no intervening zerofill sections, but since `__text`
is the first section in `__TEXT`, this never happens, so our previous
use of `getFileOffset()` was not wrong -- just inefficient.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D104177
These fields currently live in the parent InputSection class,
but they should be specific to ConcatInputSection, since the other
InputSection classes (that contain literals) aren't atomically live or
dead -- rather their component string/int literals should have
individual liveness states. (An upcoming diff will add liveness bits for
StringPieces and fixed-sized literals.)
I also factored out some asserts for isCoalescedWeak() in MarkLive.cpp.
We now avoid putting coalesced sections in the `inputSections` vector,
so we don't have to check/assert against it everywhere.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103977
Also adds support for live_support sections, no_dead_strip sections,
.no_dead_strip symbols.
Chromium Framework 345MB unstripped -> 250MB stripped
(vs 290MB unstripped -> 236M stripped with ld64).
Doing dead stripping is a bit faster than not, because so much less
data needs to be processed:
% ministat lld_*
x lld_nostrip.txt
+ lld_strip.txt
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.929414 4.07692 4.0269079 4.0089678 0.044214794
+ 10 3.8129408 3.9025559 3.8670411 3.8642573 0.024779651
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.144711 +/- 0.0336749
-3.60967% +/- 0.839989%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0358398)
This interacts with many parts of the linker. I tried to add test coverage
for all added `isLive()` checks, so that some test will fail if any of them
is removed. I checked that the test expectations for the most part match
ld64's behavior (except for live-support-iterations.s, see the comment
in the test). Interacts with:
- debug info
- export tries
- import opcodes
- flags like -exported_symbol(s_list)
- -U / dynamic_lookup
- mod_init_funcs, mod_term_funcs
- weak symbol handling
- unwind info
- stubs
- map files
- -sectcreate
- undefined, dylib, common, defined (both absolute and normal) symbols
It's possible it interacts with more features I didn't think of,
of course.
I also did some manual testing:
- check-llvm check-clang check-lld work with lld with this patch
as host linker and -dead_strip enabled
- Chromium still starts
- Chromium's base_unittests still pass, including unwind tests
Implemenation-wise, this is InputSection-based, so it'll work for
object files with .subsections_via_symbols (which includes all
object files generated by clang). I first based this on the COFF
implementation, but later realized that things are more similar to ELF.
I think it'd be good to refactor MarkLive.cpp to look more like the ELF
part at some point, but I'd like to get a working state checked in first.
Mechanical parts:
- Rename canOmitFromOutput to wasCoalesced (no behavior change)
since it really is for weak coalesced symbols
- Add noDeadStrip to Defined, corresponding to N_NO_DEAD_STRIP
(`.no_dead_strip` in asm)
Fixes PR49276.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103324
This omits load commands for unreferenced dylibs if:
- the dylib was loaded implicitly,
- it is marked MH_DEAD_STRIPPABLE_DYLIB
- or -dead_strip_dylibs is passed
This matches ld64.
Currently, the "is dylib referenced" state is computed before dead code
stripping and is not updated after dead code stripping. This too matches ld64.
We should do better here.
With this, clang-format linked with lld (like with ld64) no longer has
libobjc.A.dylib in `otool -L` output. (It was implicitly loaded as a reexport
of CoreFoundation.framework, but it's not needed.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D103430
Has the effect that `__mh_execute_header` stays in the symbol table of
outputs even after running `strip` on the output. I don't know if that's
important for anything -- my motivation for the patch is just is to make
the output more similar to ld64.
(Corresponds to symbolTableInAndNeverStrip in ld64.)
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102619
Extend the range of calls beyond an architecture's limited branch range by first calling a thunk, which loads the far address into a scratch register (x16 on ARM64) and branches through it.
Other ports (COFF, ELF) use multiple passes with successively-refined guesses regarding the expansion of text-space imposed by thunk-space overhead. This MachO algorithm places thunks during MergedOutputSection::finalize() in a single pass using exact thunk-space overheads. Thunks are kept in a separate vector to avoid the overhead of inserting into the `inputs` vector of `MergedOutputSection`.
FIXME:
* arm64-stubs.s test is broken
* add thunk tests
* Handle thunks to DylibSymbol in MergedOutputSection::finalize()
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D100818
Before this, if an inline function was defined in several input files,
lld would write each copy of the inline function the output. With this
patch, it only writes one copy.
Reduces the size of Chromium Framework from 378MB to 345MB (compared
to 290MB linked with ld64, which also does dead-stripping, which we
don't do yet), and makes linking it faster:
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 10 3.9957051 4.3496981 4.1411121 4.156837 0.10092097
+ 10 3.908154 4.169318 3.9712729 3.9846753 0.075773012
Difference at 95.0% confidence
-0.172162 +/- 0.083847
-4.14165% +/- 2.01709%
(Student's t, pooled s = 0.0892373)
Implementation-wise, when merging two weak symbols, this sets a
"canOmitFromOutput" on the InputSection belonging to the weak symbol not put in
the symbol table. We then don't write InputSections that have this set, as long
as they are not referenced from other symbols. (This happens e.g. for object
files that don't set .subsections_via_symbols or that use .alt_entry.)
Some restrictions:
- not yet done for bitcode inputs
- no "comdat" handling (`kindNoneGroupSubordinate*` in ld64) --
Frame Descriptor Entries (FDEs), Language Specific Data Areas (LSDAs)
(that is, catch block unwind information) and Personality Routines
associated with weak functions still not stripped. This is wasteful,
but harmless.
- However, this does strip weaks from __unwind_info (which is needed for
correctness and not just for size)
- This nopes out on InputSections that are referenced form more than
one symbol (eg from .alt_entry) for now
Things that work based on symbols Just Work:
- map files (change in MapFile.cpp is no-op and not needed; I just
found it a bit more explicit)
- exports
Things that work with inputSections need to explicitly check if
an inputSection is written (e.g. unwind info).
This patch is useful in itself, but it's also likely also a useful foundation
for dead_strip.
I used to have a "canoncialRepresentative" pointer on InputSection instead of
just the bool, which would be handy for ICF too. But I ended up not needing it
for this patch, so I removed that again for now.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D102076
This allows LLVM's LTO to internalize symbols that are not referenced
directly by regular objects. Naturally, this means we need to track
which symbols are referenced by regular objects. The approach taken here
is similar to LLD-COFF's: like the COFF port, we extend
`SymbolTable::insert()` to set the isVisibleToRegularObj bit. (LLD-ELF
relies on the Symbol constructor and `Symbol::mergeProperties()`, but
the Mach-O port does not have a `mergeProperties()` equivalent.)
From what I can tell, ld64 (which uses libLTO) doesn't do this
optimization at all. I'm not even sure libLTO provides a way to do this.
Not having ld64's behavior as a reference implementation is unfortunate;
instead, I am relying on LLD-ELF/COFF's behavior as references while
erring on the conservative side. In particular, LLD-MachO will only do
this optimization for executables right now.
We also don't attempt it when `-flat_namespace` is used -- otherwise
we'd need scan the symbol table to find matches for every un-namespaced
symbol reference, which is expensive.
internalize.ll is based off the LLD-ELF tests `internalize-basic.ll` and
`internalize-undef.ll`. Looks like @davide added some of LLD-ELF's internalize
tests, so adding him as a reviewer...
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99105
I noticed two problems with the previous implementation:
* N_ALT_ENTRY symbols weren't being handled correctly -- they should
determine the size of the previous symbol, even though they don't
cause a new section to be created
* The last symbol in a section had its size calculated wrongly;
the first subsection's size was used instead of the last one
I decided to take the opportunity to refactor things as well, mainly to
realize my observation
[here](https://reviews.llvm.org/D98837#inline-931511) that we could
avoid doing a binary search to match symbols with subsections. I think
the resulting code is a bit simpler too.
N Min Max Median Avg Stddev
x 20 4.31 4.43 4.37 4.3775 0.034162922
+ 20 4.32 4.43 4.38 4.3755 0.02799906
No difference proven at 95.0% confidence
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, alexshap
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99972
`class Symbol` defines a data member `InputFile *file;`
`class Defined` inherits from `Symbol` and also defines a data member `InputFile *file;` for no apparent purpose.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99783
This diff addresses FIXME in SyntheticSections.cpp and removes
the dependency of emitEndFunStab on .subsections_via_symbols.
Test plan: make check-lld-macho
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D99054
Previously, it was difficult to write code that handled both synthetic
and regular sections generically. We solve this problem by creating a
fake InputSection at the start of every SyntheticSection.
This refactor allows us to handle DSOHandle like a regular Defined
symbol (since Defined symbols must be attached to an InputSection), and
paves the way for supporting `__mh_*header` symbols. Additionally, it
simplifies our binding/rebase code.
I did have to extend Defined a little -- it now has a `linkerInternal`
flag, to indicate that `___dso_handle` should not be in the final symbol
table.
I've also added some additional testing for `___dso_handle`.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D98545
Dynamic lookup symbols are symbols that work like dynamic symbols
in ELF: They're not bound to a dylib like normal Mach-O twolevel lookup
symbols, but they live in a global pool and dyld resolves them against
exported symbols from all loaded dylibs.
This adds support for dynamical lookup symbols to lld/mac. They are
represented as DylibSymbols with file set to nullptr.
This also uses this support to implement the -U flag, which makes
a specific symbol that's undefined at the end of the link a
dynamic lookup symbol.
For -U, it'd be sufficient to just to a pass over remaining undefined symbols
at the end of the link and to replace them with dynamic lookup symbols then.
But I'd like to use this code to implement flat_namespace too, and that will
require real support for resolving dynamic lookup symbols in SymbolTable. So
this patch adds this now already.
While writing tests for this, I noticed that we didn't set N_WEAK_DEF in the
symbol table for DylibSymbols, so this fixes that too.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97521
This makes our error messages more informative. But the bigger motivation is for
LTO symbol resolution, which will be in an upcoming diff. The changes in this
one are largely mechanical.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D94316
Private extern symbols are used for things scoped to the linkage unit.
They cause duplicate symbol errors (so they're in the symbol table,
unlike TU-scoped truly local symbols), but they don't make it into the
export trie. They are created e.g. by compiling with
-fvisibility=hidden.
If two weak symbols have differing privateness, the combined symbol is
non-private external. (Example: inline functions and some TUs that
include the header defining it were built with
-fvisibility-inlines-hidden and some weren't).
A weak private external symbol implicitly has its "weak" dropped and
behaves like a regular strong private external symbol: Weak is an export
trie concept, and private symbols are not in the export trie.
If a weak and a strong symbol have different privateness, the strong
symbol wins.
If two common symbols have differing privateness, the larger symbol
wins. If they have the same size, the privateness of the symbol seen
later during the link wins (!) -- this is a bit lame, but it matches
ld64 and this behavior takes 2 lines less to implement than the less
surprising "result is non-private external), so match ld64.
(Example: `int a` in two .c files, both built with -fcommon,
one built with -fvisibility=hidden and one without.)
This also makes `__dyld_private` a true TU-local symbol, matching ld64.
To make this work, make the `const char*` StringRefZ ctor to correctly
set `size` (without this, writing the string table crashed when calling
getName() on the __dyld_private symbol).
Mention in CommonSymbol's comment that common symbols are now disabled
by default in clang.
Mention in -keep_private_externs's HelpText that the flag only has an
effect with `-r` (which we don't implement yet -- so this patch here
doesn't regress any behavior around -r + -keep_private_externs)). ld64
doesn't explicitly document it, but the commit text of
http://reviews.llvm.org/rL216146 does, and ld64's
OutputFile::buildSymbolTable() checks `_options.outputKind() ==
Options::kObjectFile` before calling `_options.keepPrivateExterns()`
(the only reference to that function).
Fixes PR48536.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93609
Note that dylibs without *any* refs will still be loaded in the usual
(strong) fashion.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93435
Weak references need not necessarily be satisfied at runtime (but they must
still be satisfied at link time). So symbol resolution still works as per usual,
but we now pass around a flag -- ultimately emitting it in the bind table -- to
indicate if a given dylib symbol is a weak reference.
ld64's behavior for symbols that have both weak and strong references is
a bit bizarre. For non-function symbols, it will emit a weak import. For
function symbols (those referenced by BRANCH relocs), it will emit a
regular import. I'm not sure what value there is in that behavior, and
since emulating it will make our implementation more complex, I've
decided to treat regular weakrefs like function symbol ones for now.
Fixes PR48511.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D93369
- most importantly, fix a use-after-free when using thin archives,
by putting the archive unique_ptr to the arena allocator. This
ports D65565 to MachO
- correctly demangle symbol namess from archives in diagnostics
- add a test for thin archives -- it finds this UaF, but only when
running it under asan (it also finds the demangling fix)
- make forceLoadArchive() use addFile() with a bool to have the archive
loading code in fewer places. no behavior change; matches COFF port a
bit better
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D92360
They operate like Defined symbols but with no associated InputSection.
Note that `ld64` seems to treat the weak definition flag like a no-op for
absolute symbols, so I have replicated that behavior.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D87909
On Unix, it is traditionally allowed to write variable definitions without
initialization expressions (such as "int foo;") to header files. These are
called tentative definitions.
The compiler creates common symbols when it sees tentative definitions. When
linking the final binary, if there are remaining common symbols after name
resolution is complete, the linker converts them to regular defined symbols in
a `__common` section.
This diff implements most of that functionality, though we do not yet handle
the case where there are both common and non-common definitions of the same
symbol.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, gkm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86909
Found such a relocation while testing some real world programs.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, smeenai
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D86642
Daniel Bertalan