Symbol::replace intends to overwrite a few fields (mostly Elf{32,64}_Sym
fields), but the implementation copies all fields then restores some old fields.
This is error-prone and wasteful. Add Symbol::overwrite to copy just the
needed fields and add other overwrite member functions to copy the extra
fields.
inputSections temporarily contains EhInputSection objects mainly for
combineEhSections. Place EhInputSection objects into a new vector
ehInputSections instead of inputSections.
Add an OutputDesc class inheriting from SectionCommand. An OutputDesc wraps an
OutputSection. This change allows InputSection::getParent to be inlined.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120650
In GNU ld, the definition precedence is: regular symbol assignment > relocatable object definition > `PROVIDE` symbol assignment.
GNU ld's internal linker scripts define the non-reserved (by C and C++)
edata/end/etext with `PROVIDE` so the relocatable object definition takes
precedence. This makes sense because `int end;` is valid.
We currently redefine such symbols if they are COMMON, but not if they are
regular definitions, so `int end;` with -fcommon is essentially a UB in ld.lld.
Fix this (also improve consistency and match GNU ld) by using the
`isDefined` code path for `isCommon`. In GNU ld, reserved identifiers like
`__ehdr_start` do not use `PROVIDE`, while we treat them all as `PROVIDE`, this
seems fine.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120389
See the updated insert-before.test for the effects: many synthetic
sections are SHF_ALLOC|SHF_WRITE. If they are discarded, we don't want
to propagate their flags to subsequent output section descriptions.
`getFirstInputSection(sec) == nullptr` can technically be merged into
`isDiscardable` but I'd like to postpone that as not sharing code may give more
refactoring opportunity.
Depends on D118529.
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118530
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting updates some output section attributes
(alignment/flags) and removes discardable empty sections. When it is called,
INSERT commands have not been processed. Therefore the flags propagation rule
may not affect output sections defined in an INSERT command properly.
Fix this by moving processInsertCommands before adjustSectionsBeforeSorting.
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting is somewhat misnamed. The order between it and
sortInputSections does not matter. With the pass shuffle, the name of
adjustSectionsBeforeSorting becomes wrong. Therefore rename it. The new
name is not set into stone. The function mixes several tasks and the
code may be refactored in a way that we may give them more meaningful
names.
With this patch, I think the behavior of attribute propagation becomes more
reasonable. In particular, in the absence of non-INSERT SECTIONS,
inserting a section after a SHF_ALLOC one will give us a SHF_ALLOC section,
not a non-SHF_ALLOC one (see linkerscript/insert-after.test).
Reviewed By: peter.smith, bluca
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118529
Move all variables at file-scope or function-static-scope into a hosting structure (lld::CommonLinkerContext) that lives at lldMain()-scope. Drivers will inherit from this structure and add their own global state, in the same way as for the existing COFFLinkerContext.
See discussion in https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-June/151184.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D108850
db08df0570 does not work because part.relrDyn is
a unique_ptr and `reset` destroys the object which may still be referenced.
This commit uses the D114180 approach. Also improve the test to check that there
is no R_X86_64_RELATIVE.
to prepare for D116838, otherwise for linkerscript/discard-section-err.s,
there will be a null pointer dereference in `part.relrDyn->getParent()->size`
in `finalizeSynthetic(part.relrDyn.get())`.
and remove associated make<XXX> calls.
gnuHash and sysvHash are unchanged, otherwise LinkerScript::discard would
destroy the objects which may be referenced by input section descriptions.
My x86-64 lld executable is 121+KiB smaller.
Currently the singleton `config` is assigned by `config = make<Configuration>()`
and (if `canExitEarly` is false) destroyed by `lld::freeArena`.
`make<Configuration>` allocates a stab with `malloc(4096)`. This both wastes
memory and bloats the executable (every type instantiates `BumpPtrAllocator`
which costs more than 1KiB code on x86-64).
(No need to worry about `clang::no_destroy`. Regular invocations (`canExitEarly`
is true) call `_Exit` via llvm::sys::Process::ExitNoCleanup.)
Reviewed By: lichray
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D116143
Sorting the prefixes by decreasing frequency can improve performance.
.gcc_except_table is relatively frequent, so move it ahead.
.ctors and .dtors mostly disappear and should be the last.
I attempted to remove it 1 or 2 year ago but kept it just to have a good
diagnostic in case the output section is nullptr (should be impossible).
It is long enough that we haven't seen such a case.
BaseCommand was picked when PHDRS/INSERT/etc were not implemented. Rename it to
SectionCommand to match `sectionCommands` and make it clear that the commands
are used in SECTIONS (except a special case for SymbolAssignment).
Also, improve naming of some BaseCommand variables (base -> cmd).
This partially reverts r315409: the description applies to LinkerScript, but not
to OutputSection.
The name "sectionCommands" is used in both LinkerScript::sectionCommands and
OutputSection::sectionCommands, which may lead to confusion.
"commands" in OutputSection has no ambiguity because there are no other types
of commands.
The attribute 'r' allows (or disallows for the negative case) read-only
sections, i.e. ones without the SHF_WRITE flag, to be assigned to the
memory region. Before the patch, lld could put a section in the wrong
region or fail with "error: no memory region specified for section".
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D113771
