COFF doesn't have sections with mergeable contents. Instead, each
constant pool entry ends up in a COMDAT section. The linker, when
choosing between COMDAT sections, doesn't choose the max alignment of
the two sections. You just get whatever alignment was on the section.
If one constant needed a higher alignment in one object file from
another one, then we will get into trouble if the linker chooses the
lower alignment one.
Instead, lets promote the alignment of the constant pool entry to make
sure we don't use an under aligned constant with an instruction which
assumed otherwise.
This fixes PR26680.
llvm-svn: 261462
For historic reasons, the behavior of .align differs between targets.
Fortunately, there are alternatives, .p2align and .balign, which make the
interpretation of the parameter explicit, and which behave consistently across
targets.
This patch teaches MC to use .p2align instead of .align, so that people reading
code for multiple architectures don't have to remember which way each platform
does its .align directive.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16549
llvm-svn: 258750
COFF section flags are not idempotent:
'rd' will make a read-write section because 'd' implies write
'dr' will make a read-only section because 'r' disables write
llvm-svn: 228490
The constant pool entry code for WinCOFF assumed that vector constants
would be formed using ConstantDataVector, it did not expect to see a
ConstantVector. Furthermore, it did not expect undef as one of the
elements of the vector.
ConstantVectors should be handled like ConstantDataVectors, treat Undef
as zero.
llvm-svn: 213038
COFF lacks a feature that other object file formats support: mergeable
sections.
To work around this, MSVC sticks constant pool entries in special COMDAT
sections so that each constant is in it's own section. This permits
unused constants to be dropped and it also allows duplicate constants in
different translation units to get merged together.
This fixes PR20262.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4482
llvm-svn: 213006
David Majnemer