COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. If a target atom is
coalesced away, the referring atom is removed by Resolver, so that
they are treated as a group.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4028
llvm-svn: 211106
The previous commit uncovered a bug in the mach-o writer whereby two __text
sections were created. But the test case did not catch that. So I updated
the test case to run the linker a second time, reading the output of the
first pass.
llvm-svn: 210624
COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
Implementing such feature is easy. We can add a reference from a
target atom to an original atom, so that if the target is linked,
the original atom is also linked. If not linked, both will be
dead-stripped. So they are treated as a group.
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. It does nothing except
preventing referenced atoms from being dead-stripped.
No change to the Resolver is needed.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, atanasyan
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3946
llvm-svn: 210240
This provides support for the autoconfing & make build style.
The format, style and implementation follows that used within the llvm and clang projects.
TODO: implement out-of-source documentation builds.
llvm-svn: 210177
Previously FileArchive ctor comment said that only its subclasses
can be instantiated, but the ctor is actually public and is
instantiated by ArchiveReader.
Remove the wrong comment and reorder the member functions so that
public members appear before private ones.
llvm-svn: 210175
In sections that are broken into atoms at symbols, if the first symbol in the
section is not at the start of the section, then make an anonymous atom for
the section content that is before the first symbol.
llvm-svn: 210142
Previously each section kind had its own code to loop over the section and
parse it into atoms. This refactoring has two tables. The first maps sections
to ContentType. The second maps ContentType to information on how to find
the atom boundaries.
A few bugs in test cases were discovered as part of the refactoring.
No change in functionality intended.
llvm-svn: 210138
Previously section groups are doubly linked to their children.
That is, an atom representing a group has group-child references
to its group contents, and content atoms also have group-parent
references to the group atom. That relationship was invariant;
if X has a group-child edge to Y, Y must have a group-parent
edge to X.
However we were not using group-parent references at all. The
resolver only needs group-child edges.
This patch simplifies the section group by removing the unused
reverse edge. No functionality change intended.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3945
llvm-svn: 210066
Arrange .ctors/.dtors sections in the following order:
.ctors from crtbegin.o or crtbegin?.o
.ctors from regular object files
.ctors.* (sorted) from regular object files
.ctors from crtend.o or crtend?.o
This order is specific for MIPS traget. For example, on X86
the .ctors.* sections are merged into the .init_array section.
llvm-svn: 209987
The main problem is in the predicate passed to the `std::stable_sort()`.
This predicate always returns false if **both** section's names do not
start with `.init_array` or `.fini_array` prefixes. In short, it does not
define a strict weak orderng. Suppose we have the following sections:
.A .init_array.1 .init_array.2
The predicate states that:
not .init_array.1 < .A
not .A < .init_array.2
but .init_array.1 < .init_array.2 !!!
The second problem is that `.init_array` section without number should
go last in the list. Not it has the lowest priority '0' and goes first.
The patch fixes both of the problems.
llvm-svn: 209875
Rafael Espindola