llvm-project/llvm
Peter Collingbourne 10d362c51b MC: For variable symbols, maintain MCSymbol::Section as a cache.
Fixes PR19582.

Previously, when an asm assignment (.set or =) was created, we would look up
the section immediately in MCSymbol::setVariableValue. This caused symbols
to receive the wrong section if the RHS of the assignment had not been seen
yet. This had a knock-on effect in the object file emitters, causing them
to emit extra symbols, or to give symbols the wrong visibility or the wrong
section. For example, in the following asm:

.data
.Llocal:

.text
leaq .Llocal1(%rip), %rdi
.Llocal1 = .Llocal2
.Llocal2 = .Llocal

the first assignment would give .Llocal1 a null section, which would never get
fixed up by the second assignment. This would cause the ELF object file emitter
to consider .Llocal1 to be an undefined symbol and give it external linkage,
even though .Llocal1 should not have been emitted at all in the object file.

Or in the following asm:

alias_to_local = Ltmp0
Ltmp0:

the Mach-O object file emitter would give the alias_to_local symbol a n_type
of N_SECT and a n_sect of 0.  This is invalid under the Mach-O specification,
which requires N_SECT symbols to receive a non-zero section number if the
symbol is defined in a section in the object file.

https://developer.apple.com/library/mac/documentation/DeveloperTools/Conceptual/MachORuntime/#//apple_ref/c/tag/nlist

After this change we do not look up the section when the assignment is created,
but instead look it up on demand and store it in Section, which is treated
as a cache if the symbol is a variable symbol.

This change also fixes a bug in MCExpr::FindAssociatedSection. Previously,
if we saw a subtraction, we would return the first referenced section, even in
cases where we should have been returning the absolute pseudo-section. Now we
always return the absolute pseudo-section for expressions that subtract two
section-derived expressions. This isn't always correct (e.g. if one of the
sections ends up being laid out at an absolute address), but it's probably
the best we can do without more context.

This allows us to remove code in two places where we appear to have been
working around this bug, in MachObjectWriter::markAbsoluteVariableSymbols
and in X86AsmPrinter::EmitStartOfAsmFile.

Re-applies r233595 (aka D8586), which was reverted in r233898.

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8798

llvm-svn: 233995
2015-04-03 01:46:11 +00:00
..
autoconf Try to unbreak Clang build to export LLVM_ABI_BREAKING_CHECKS, fixup for r233310. 2015-04-01 11:46:15 +00:00
bindings Go bindings: use MDNode::replaceAllUsesWith instead of MDTuple::replaceAllUsesWith. 2015-03-05 22:55:38 +00:00
cmake Try to unbreak Clang build to export LLVM_ABI_BREAKING_CHECKS, fixup for r233310. 2015-04-01 11:46:15 +00:00
docs [WinEH] Make llvm.eh.actions use frameescape indices for catch params 2015-04-02 21:13:31 +00:00
examples llvm/examples/BrainF: Give an explicit pointee type to ConstantExpr::getGetElementPtr(ty...), according to r233938. 2015-04-02 22:44:00 +00:00
include MC: For variable symbols, maintain MCSymbol::Section as a cache. 2015-04-03 01:46:11 +00:00
lib MC: For variable symbols, maintain MCSymbol::Section as a cache. 2015-04-03 01:46:11 +00:00
projects Reverse the order libc++ and libc++abi are added in CMake. 2015-03-04 01:16:43 +00:00
test MC: For variable symbols, maintain MCSymbol::Section as a cache. 2015-04-03 01:46:11 +00:00
tools [opaque pointer type] API migration for GEP constant factories 2015-04-02 18:55:32 +00:00
unittests [opaque pointer type] API migration for GEP constant factories 2015-04-02 18:55:32 +00:00
utils TableGen: Generate more const goodness 2015-04-01 22:09:55 +00:00
.arcconfig
.clang-format
.clang-tidy
.gitignore Ignore compile_commands.json only at the root of the tree. 2015-03-26 18:55:42 +00:00
CMakeLists.txt CMake: enable installing utils 2015-03-27 16:53:06 +00:00
CODE_OWNERS.TXT Tom is also responsible for the 3.6 branch. 2015-03-16 18:15:27 +00:00
CREDITS.TXT
LICENSE.TXT Update for a new year. 2015-03-12 01:25:29 +00:00
LLVMBuild.txt
Makefile
Makefile.common
Makefile.config.in Try to unbreak Clang build to export LLVM_ABI_BREAKING_CHECKS, fixup for r233310. 2015-04-01 11:46:15 +00:00
Makefile.rules Add support for SunOS function/data sections and associated 2015-03-03 20:54:29 +00:00
README.txt Revert test commit at revision 233535. 2015-03-30 12:39:03 +00:00
configure Try to unbreak Clang build to export LLVM_ABI_BREAKING_CHECKS, fixup for r233310. 2015-04-01 11:46:15 +00:00
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