In PDBs, symbol records must be aligned to four bytes. However, in the
object file, symbol records may not be aligned. MSVC does not pad out
symbol records to make sure they are aligned. That means the linker has
to do extra work to insert the padding. Currently, LLD calculates the
required space with alignment, and copies each record one at a time
while padding them out to the correct size. It has a fast path that
avoids this copy when the records are already aligned.
This change fixes a bug in that codepath so that the copy is actually
saved, and tweaks LLVM's symbol record emission to align symbol records.
Here's how things compare when doing a plain clang Release+PDB build:
- objs are 0.65% bigger (negligible)
- link is 3.3% faster (negligible)
- saves allocating 441MB
- new LLD high water mark is ~1.05GB
llvm-svn: 349431
Summary:
Any time a symbol record, whether it's S_UDT, S_LOCAL, or S_[GL]DATA32,
references a record type, it should use the complete type index, even if
there's a typedef in the way.
Fixes the compiler part of PR39853.
Reviewers: zturner, aganea
Subscribers: hiraditya, arphaman, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55236
llvm-svn: 348902
Aaron Smith