Currently, YAML has the following syntax for describing the symbols:
Symbols:
Local:
LocalSymbol1:
...
LocalSymbol2:
...
...
Global:
GlobalSymbol1:
...
Weak:
...
GNUUnique:
I.e. symbols are grouped by their bindings. That is not very convenient,
because:
It does not allow to set a custom binding, what can be useful for producing
broken/special outputs for test cases. Adding a new binding would require to
change a syntax (what we observed when added GNUUnique recently).
It does not allow to change the order of the symbols in .symtab/.dynsym,
i.e. currently all Local symbols are placed first, then Global, Weak and GNUUnique
are following, but we are not able to change the order.
It is not consistent. Binding is just one of the properties of the symbol,
we do not group them by other properties.
It makes the code more complex that it can be. This patch shows it can be simplified
with the change performed.
The patch changes the syntax to just:
Symbols:
Symbol1:
...
Symbol2:
...
...
With that, we are able to work with the binding field just like with any other symbol property.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60122
llvm-svn: 357595
Prior to this change, the "Symbol" field of a relocation would always be
assumed to be a symbol name, and if no such symbol existed, the
relocation would reference index 0. This confused me when I tried to use
a literal symbol index in the field: since "0x1" was not a known symbol
name, the symbol index was set as 0. This change falls back to treating
unknown symbol names as integers, and emits an error if the name is not
found and the string is not an integer.
Note that the Symbol field is optional, so if a relocation doesn't
reference a symbol, it shouldn't be specified. The new error required a
number of test updates.
Reviewed by: grimar, ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D58510
llvm-svn: 355938
Summary:
Our YAML library's handling of tags isn't perfect, but it is good enough to get rid of the need for the --format argument to yaml2obj. This patch does exactly that.
Instead of requiring --format, it infers the format based on the tags found in the object file. The supported tags are:
!ELF
!COFF
!mach-o
!fat-mach-o
I have a corresponding patch that is quite large that fixes up all the in-tree test cases.
Reviewers: rafael, Bigcheese, compnerd, silvas
Subscribers: compnerd, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D21711
llvm-svn: 273915
George Rimar