COMDAT_SELECT_LARGEST is a COMDAT type that make linker to choose the largest
definition from among all of the definition of a symbol. If the size is the
same, the choice is arbitrary.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3011
llvm-svn: 204172
If the driver finds a command line option in the form of "@filename", the
option will be replaced with the content of the given file. It's an error
if a response file cannot be read.
llvm-svn: 203875
An object whose machine type header value is unknown looks a bit odd but
is valid. If an object contains only machine-type-independent data, you
can leave the type field unspecified. Some files in oldname.lib are such
object files.
llvm-svn: 203752
Summary:
COMDAT_SELECT_SAME_SIZE is a COMDAT type that I presume exist only in COFF.
The semantics of the type is that linker should merge such COMDAT sections if
their sizes are the same. Otherwise it's an error.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2996
llvm-svn: 203308
Just like x86 exception handler table, the table for x64 needs to be sorted
so that runtime can binary search on it. Unlike x86, the table entry for x64
has multiple fields, and they need to be sorted according to its BeginAddress
field. This patch also fixes a bug in relocations.
llvm-svn: 202874
It looks like the contents of the table need to be sorted according to its
value, so that the runtime can find the entry by binary search. I'm not 100%
sure if we really have to do that, but at least I can say it's safe to do
because the contents of .sxdata is just a list of exception handlers' RVAs.
llvm-svn: 202550
If all input files are compatible with Structured Exception Handling, linker
is supposed to create an exectuable with a table for SEH handlers. The table
consists of exception handlers entry point addresses.
The basic idea of SEH in x86 Microsoft ABI is to list all valid entry points
of exception handlers in an read-only memory, so that an attacker cannot
override the addresses in it. In x86 ABI, data for exception handling is mostly
on stack, so it's volnerable to stack overflow attack. In order to protect
against it, Windows runtime uses the table to check a return address, to
ensure that the address is really an valid entry point for an exception handler.
Compiler emits a list of exception handler functions to .sxdata section. It
also emits a marker symbol "@feat.00" to indicate that the object is compatible
with SEH. SEH is a relatively new feature for COFF, and mixing SEH-compatible
and SEH-incompatible objects will result in an invalid executable, so is the
marker.
If all input files are compatible with SEH, LLD emits a SEH table. SEH table
needs to be pointed by Load Configuration strucutre, so when emitting a SEH
table LLD emits it too. The address of a Load Configuration will be stored to
the file header.
llvm-svn: 202248
The target machine type affects the meaning of other options, in particular
how to mangle symbols. So we want to handle the option first and then parse
all the other options.
llvm-svn: 200589
Because the object files are now readable to humans, I don't think we need the
source assembly file any more, so I removed them too in this commit.
llvm-svn: 200276
Module-definition (.def) files are the file containing linker directives,
such as export symbols. Because link.exe supports the same features as command
line options, just as some Linker Script commands overlaps with command line
options, use of module-definition file is not really necessary. It provides
an alternative way to specify some linker options.
This patch implements EXPORTS directive. Other directives will be implemented
in the future.
llvm-svn: 198925
Currently LLD always print a warning message if the same symbol is specified
more than once for /export option. It's a bit annoying because specifying the
same symbol with compatible options is actually safe and considered as a
normal use case. This patch makes LLD to warn only when incompatible export
options are given.
llvm-svn: 198104
Currently .drectve section contents are parsed after other sections are parsed.
That order may result in wrong results if other sections depend on command line
options in the directive section.
For example, if a weak symbol is defined using /alternatename option in the
directive section, we have to read it first and then read the text section
contents. Otherwise the weak symbol won't be defined.
This patch changes the order to fix the issue.
llvm-svn: 198071
There was a bug that the linker does not report an error if symbols specified
by -u (or /include on Windows) are not resolved. This patch fixes it by adding
such symbols to the dead strip root.
llvm-svn: 198041
Subsystem field in the PE/COFF file header has no meanining for the DLL.
It looks like MSVC link.exe sets the default subsystem (Windows GUI) to
the field if no /subsystem option is specified.
llvm-svn: 198015
Executable files do not use a string table, so section names longer than 8
characters are not permitted. Long section names should just be truncated.
llvm-svn: 197470
If NONAME option is given for an export, that symbol will be exported only by
its ordinal. LLD will not emit the symbol name to the export table.
llvm-svn: 197371
OrdinalBase is an addend to the ordinals. We used to always set 1 to the field.
Although it produced a valid a DLL export table, it'd be a waste if the first
ordinal does not start with 1 -- we had to have NULL fields at the beginning of
the export address table. By setting the ordinal base, we can eliminate the
NULL fields.
llvm-svn: 197367
You can specify exported function's ordinal by /export:func,@<number> command
line option, but LLD ignored the option until now. This patch implements the
feature.
Ordinal is basically the index into the exported function address table. So,
for example, if /export:foo,@42 is specified, the linker writes foo's address
to 42th entry in the address table. Windows supports import-by-ordinal; you
can not only import a function by name, but by its ordinal. If you want to
allow your DLL users to import your functions by their ordinals, you need to
make sure that your functions are always exported with the same ordinals.
This is the feature for that situation.
llvm-svn: 197364
The only data in .edata whose length varies is the string. This patch moves
all the strings to the end of the section, so that 16-bit or 32-bit integers
are aligned on correct boundaries.
llvm-svn: 197213
This is the first patch to emit data for the DLL export table. The DLL export
table is the data used by the Windows loader to find the address of exported
function from DLL. With this patch, LLD is able to emit a valid DLL export
table which the Windows loader can interpret and load.
The data structure of the DLL export table is described in the Microsoft
PE/COFF Specification, section 5.3.
DLL support is not complete yet; the linker needs to emit an import library
for a DLL, otherwise the linker cannot link against the DLL. We also do not
support export-only-by-ordinal yet.
llvm-svn: 197212
If section size is not multiple of 512, the writer added NULL bytes at the end
of it to make it so. That is not required by the PE/COFF spec, and the MSVC's
linker does not do that too. So we don't need to do that, too.
llvm-svn: 197002
GroupedSectionsPass was a complicated pass. That pass's job was to reorder
atoms by section name, so that the atoms with the same section prefix will be
emitted consecutively to the executable. The pass added layout edges to atoms,
and let the layout pass to actually reorder them.
This patch simplifies the design by making GroupedSectionPass to directly
reorder atoms, rather than adding layout edges. This resembles ELF's
ArrayOrderPass.
This patch improves the performance of LLD; it used to take 7.1 seconds to
link LLD with LLD on my Macbook Pro, but it now takes 6.1 seconds.
llvm-svn: 196628
Emitting idata atoms to their own section would make debugging easier.
The Windows loader do not really care about whether the DLL import table is
in .rdata or its own .idata section, so there is no change in functionality.
llvm-svn: 196458
This is a patch to let the PECOFF writer to use the information passed
by the parser for /section option. The implementation of /section should
now be complete.
llvm-svn: 195893
Atom ordinals are the indeces in a file. Currently the PECOFF reader assigns
ordinals for each section, so it's (incorrectly) assigning duplicate ordinals.
llvm-svn: 195852
Instead of having multiple SectionChunks for each section (.text, .data,
.rdata and .bss), we could have one chunk writer that can emit any sections.
This patch does that -- removing all section-sepcific chunk writers and
replace them with one "generic" writer.
This change should simplify the code because it eliminates similar-but-
slightly-different classes.
It also fixes an issue in the previous design. Before this patch, we could
emit only limited set of sections (i.e. .text, .data, .rdata and .bss). With
this patch, we can emit any sections.
llvm-svn: 195797
If /subsystem option is not specified, the linker needs to infer it from the
entry point function. If "main" or "wmain" is defined, it's a console
application. If "WinMain" or "wWinMain" is defined, it's a GUI application.
llvm-svn: 195592
The fallback atom was used only when it's searching for a symbol in a library;
if an undefined symbol was not found in a library, the LLD looked for its
fallback symbol in the library.
Although it worked in most cases, because symbols with fallbacks usually occur
only in OLDNAMES.LIB (a standard library), that behavior was incompatible with
link.exe. This patch fixes the issue so that the semantics is the same as
MSVC's link.exe
The new (and correct, I believe) behavior is this:
- If there's no definition for an undefined atom, replace the undefined atom
with its fallback and then proceed (e.g. look in the next file or stop
linking as usual.)
Weak External symbols are underspecified in the Microsoft PE/COFF spec. However,
as long as I observed the behavior of link.exe, this seems to be what we want
for compatibility.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2162
llvm-svn: 195269
__ImageBase is an absolute symbol whose address is the same as the image base
address. What we did before this patch was to create __ImageBase symbol as a
symbol whose *contents* (not location) is the image base address, which is
clearly wrong.
llvm-svn: 193565
Disable tests to be run with REQUIRES: disable. Note disable is not added to the
config by the test runner Mkaefiles, so essentially disables the test.
Code changes would be required to fix these tests :-
test/darwin/hello-world.objtxt
test/elf/check.test
test/elf/phdr.test
test/elf/ppc.test
test/elf/undef-from-main-dso.test
test/elf/X86_64/note-sections-ro_plus_rw.test
test/pecoff/alignment.test
test/pecoff/base-reloc.test
test/pecoff/bss-section.test
test/pecoff/drectve.test
test/pecoff/dynamic.test
test/pecoff/dynamicbase.test
test/pecoff/entry.test
test/pecoff/hello.test
test/pecoff/imagebase.test
test/pecoff/importlib.test
test/pecoff/lib.test
test/pecoff/multi.test
test/pecoff/reloc.test
test/pecoff/weak-external.test
llvm-svn: 193300
We should dead-strip atoms only if they are created for COMDAT symbols. If we
remove non-COMDAT atoms from a binary, it will no longer be guaranteed that
the binary will work correctly.
In COFF, you can manipulate the order of section contents in the resulting
binary by section name. For example, if you have four sections
.data$unique_prefix_{a,b,c,d}, it's guaranteed that the contents of A, B, C,
and D will be consecutive in the resulting .data section in that order.
Thus, you can access B's and C's contents by incrementing a pointer pointing
to A until it reached to D. That's why we cannot dead-strip B or C even if
no one is directly referencing to them.
Some object files in the standard library actually use that technique.
llvm-svn: 193017
Dead-strip root symbols can be undefined atoms, but should not really be
nonexistent, because dead-strip root symbols should be added to initial
undefined atoms at startup. Whenever you look up its name in the symbol
table, some type of atom will always exist.
llvm-svn: 192831
-- so that command line options to specify new input files, such as
/defaultlib:foo, is handled properly. Such options were ignored before
this patch.
llvm-svn: 192342
We used to support both Windows and Unix style command line options. In Windows
style, an option and its value are separated by ":" (colon). In Unix, separator
is a space. Accepting both styles were convenient, but we can no longer allow
Unix style because I found that can be ambiguous.
For example, /nodefaultlib option takes an optional argument. In Windows style
it's going to be something like "/nodefaultlib:foo". There's no ambiguity what
"foo" means. However, if the option is "/nodefaultlib foo", "foo" can be
interpreted either an optional argument for "/nodefaultlib" or an input file
"foo.obj". We should just stop accepting the non-standard command line style.
llvm-svn: 191247
Summary:
This patch changes WriterPECOFF to actually write down the address instead of ignoring it.
Also, it changes the order of adding the BaseReloc chunk as otherwise the address wasn't set yet.
I think a better way of doing it would be to change DataDirectoryAtom to create a Reference
instead of using a number, and to change IdataPass accordingly, but I'm not sure how to do that.
Reviewers: ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1743
llvm-svn: 191220
Summary: This patch changes WritePECOFF to calculate the value of the SizeOfHeaders PE header field instead of just using 512.
Reviewers: rui314, ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
CC: llvm-commits, ruiu
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1708
llvm-svn: 191212
This patch changes lld to go through all sections while calculating the size
for SizeOfCode, SizeOfInitializedData and SizeOfUninitializedData fields in the
PE header, instead of using only a small set of hard-coded sections.
This only really changes SizeOfInitializedData which didn't include .reloc
section before this patch.
Patch by Ron Ofir.
llvm-svn: 190799
This patch sets the IMAGE_SCN_MEM_DISCARDABLE characteristic to the base
relocations section in order to match MS PECOFF specification.
Patch by Ron Ofir.
llvm-svn: 190798
There was a bug that if a section has an alignment requirement and there are
multiple symbols at offset 0 in the section, only the last atom at offset 0
would be aligned properly. That bug would move only the last symbol to an
alignment boundary, leaving other symbols unaligned, although they should be at
the same location. That caused a mysterious SEGV error of the resultant
executable.
With this patch, we manage all symbols at the same location properly, rather
than keeping the last one.
llvm-svn: 190724
We need to order atoms that exist in the same chain. This is to make sure that
the command line order is preserved when we emit the atoms to the output file.
Credits: BigCheese for finding the bug.
Adds a test which otherwise would fail.
llvm-svn: 190608
The compiler is allowed to add a linker option starting with -?<name> to
.drectve section. If the linker can interpret -<name>, it's processed as if
there's no question mark there. If not, such option is silently ignored.
This is a COFF's feature to allow the compiler to emit new linker options
while keeping compatibility with older linkers.
llvm-svn: 189897
This adds an API to the LinkingContext for flavors to add Internal files
containing atoms that need to appear in the YAML output as well, when -emit-yaml
switch is used.
Flavors can add more internal files for other options that are needed.
llvm-svn: 189718
We added layout edges to the head atoms in grouped sections. That was wrong,
because the head atom needs to be followed by the other atoms in the *same*
section, not by the other section contents. With this patch, layout edges are
added from tail atom, which is the last atom in a section, to head atom.
llvm-svn: 189573
Because of a bug, the last atom of each section contained a garbage at the
end of its data. In most cases the garbage is harmless but it could have cause
SEGV.
llvm-svn: 189572
With this patch the entry symbol is treated as an undefined symbol, to force
the resolver to resolve the entry symbol.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1524
llvm-svn: 189307
The import name is not always the same as the symbol name. If the name/type
field in the import header is NOPREFIX or UNDECORATE, we need to strip some
characters from symbol to get its import name.
The Microsoft PE/COFF spec is vague if symbol contains more than two
consecutive characters to be stripped. We used to strip all characters,
but it doesn't seem right as we couldn't link against the system library
because of this name mangling. Looks like we shouldn't strip more than one
character.
llvm-svn: 188154
__ImageBase is a symbol having 4 byte integer equal to the image base address
of the resultant executable. The linker is expected to create the symbol as if
it were read from a file.
In order to emit the symbol contents only when the symbol is actually
referenced, we created a pseudo library file to wrap the linker generated
symbol. The library file member is emitted to the output only when the member
is actually referenced, which is suitable for our purpose.
llvm-svn: 188052
The COMDAT section is a section with a special attribute to tell the linker
whether the symbols in the section are allowed to be merged or not. This patch
add a function to interpret the COMDAT data and set "merge" attribute to the
atoms accordingly.
LLD supports multiple policies to merge atoms; atoms can be merged by name or
by content. COFF supports them, and in addition to that, it supports
choose-the-largest-atom policy, which LLD currently does not support. I simply
mapped it to merge-by-name attribute for now, but we eventually have to support
that policy in the core linker.
llvm-svn: 188025
Summary:
The .drectve section contains linker command line options, and the linker is
expected to interpret them as if they were given via the command line. In this
patch, the command line parser in the driver is called from the object file
reader to parse the string.
I think this patch is important, because this is the first step towards mutable
TargetInfo. We had a discussion about that on llvm-commits mailing list before.
I haven't removed "const" from the function signature yet. Instead, I just use
cast to remove "const". This is a temporary aid for an experiment. If we don't
see any issue with this mutable TargetInfo appraoch, I'll change the function
signature, and rename the class LinkerContext from TargetInfo.
Reviewers: kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1246
llvm-svn: 187677
This patch removes hacky mangle() function, which strips all decorations
uncondtitionally. LLD now interprets Import Name/Type field in the import
library properly as described in the Microsoft PE/COFF Spec.
llvm-svn: 187388
Some sections, such as with IMAGE_SCN_LNK_REMOVE attribute, is skipped
in the first pass. Such sections need to be skipped in the latter passes.
llvm-svn: 187281
The /include command line option is equivalent to Unix --undefined
option, which forces the linker to resolve the given symbol name
as if it's an unresolved symbol in one of its input files. This feature
is used to link an additional object file or a shared library that no
input files refer to.
llvm-svn: 187084
Emit .reloc section. This is the first step to support DLL creation. The
executable doesn't need .reloc section, but the DLL does.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1126
llvm-svn: 186336
This patch adds a new pass, IdataPass, to transform shared atom references
to real references and to construct the .idata section data. With this patch
lld can produce a working Hello World program by linking it against
kernel32.dll and user32.dll.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1096
llvm-svn: 186071
Rui Ueyama