llvm-project/lld
Fangrui Song ec29538af2 [ELF] Assign file offsets of non-SHF_ALLOC after SHF_ALLOC and set sh_addr=0 to non-SHF_ALLOC
* GNU ld places non-SHF_ALLOC sections after SHF_ALLOC sections. This has the
  advantage that the file offsets of a non-SHF_ALLOC cannot be contained in
  a PT_LOAD. This patch matches the behavior.
* For non-SHF_ALLOC non-orphan sections, GNU ld may assign non-zero sh_addr and
  treat them similar to SHT_NOBITS (not advance location counter). This
  is an alternative approach to what we have done in D85100.
  By placing non-SHF_ALLOC sections at the end, we can drop special
  cases in createSection and findOrphanPos added by D85100.

  Different from GNU ld, we set sh_addr to 0 for non-SHF_ALLOC sections. 0
  arguably is better because non-SHF_ALLOC sections don't appear in the memory
  image.

ELF spec says:

> sh_addr - If the section will appear in the memory image of a process, this
> member gives the address at which the section's first byte should
> reside. Otherwise, the member contains 0.

D85100 appeared to take a detour. If we take a combined view on D85100 and this
patch, the overall complexity slightly increases (one more 3-line loop) and
compatibility with GNU ld improves.

The behavior we don't want to match is the special treatment of .symtab
.shstrtab .strtab: they can be matched in LLD but not in GNU ld.

Reviewed By: jhenderson, psmith

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D85867
2020-08-18 09:03:01 -07:00
..
COFF Revert "Re-Re-land: [CodeView] Add full repro to LF_BUILDINFO record" 2020-08-17 15:49:18 -04:00
Common [lld-macho] Implement -headerpad 2020-07-30 14:29:31 -07:00
ELF [ELF] Assign file offsets of non-SHF_ALLOC after SHF_ALLOC and set sh_addr=0 to non-SHF_ALLOC 2020-08-18 09:03:01 -07:00
MachO [lld-macho] Emit load command LC_BUILD_VERSION 2020-08-14 12:36:43 -07:00
MinGW [LLD] [MinGW] Implement the --no-seh flag 2020-07-28 21:08:37 +03:00
cmake/modules lld: Let find_package(LLD) work 2020-05-14 09:59:53 -04:00
docs Bump the trunk major version to 12 2020-07-15 12:05:05 +02:00
include/lld [lld-macho] Implement -headerpad 2020-07-30 14:29:31 -07:00
lib [CMake] Make `intrinsics_gen` dependency unconditional. 2020-07-17 16:43:17 -07:00
test [ELF] Assign file offsets of non-SHF_ALLOC after SHF_ALLOC and set sh_addr=0 to non-SHF_ALLOC 2020-08-18 09:03:01 -07:00
tools/lld Reland D78837 [lld] Remove special cases from default ld driver mode. 2020-04-29 14:45:44 -07:00
unittests Use INTERFACE_COMPILE_OPTIONS to disable -Wsuggest-override for any target that links to gtest 2020-07-27 08:37:01 -07:00
utils Python 2/3 compatibility 2019-03-20 07:42:13 +00:00
wasm [lld][WebAssembly] Emit all return types of multivalue functions 2020-08-12 13:14:15 -07:00
.clang-format
.clang-tidy [lld] Add .clang-tidy to customize readability-identifier-naming.{Member,Parameter,Variable}Case => camelBack 2020-03-09 08:26:41 -07:00
.gitignore
CMakeLists.txt [CMake] Move find_package(ZLIB) to LLVMConfig 2020-07-27 17:13:55 -07:00
CODE_OWNERS.TXT
LICENSE.TXT Fix typos throughout the license files that somehow I and my reviewers 2019-01-21 09:52:34 +00:00
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LLVM Linker (lld)

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