Previously by default, when not using `--ifc=`, lld would not
deduplicate string literals. This reveals reliance on undefined behavior
where string literal addresses are compared instead of using string
equality checks. While ideally you would be able to easily identify and
eliminate the reliance on this UB, this can be difficult, especially for
third party code, and increases the friction and risk of users migrating
to lld. This flips the default to deduplicate strings unless
`--no-deduplicate-strings` is passed, matching ld64's behavior.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D140517
Currently we take the first SHT_RISCV_ATTRIBUTES (.riscv.attributes) as the
output. If we link an object without an extension with an object with the
extension, the output Tag_RISCV_arch may not contain the extension and some
tools like objdump -d will not decode the related instructions.
This patch implements
Tag_RISCV_stack_align/Tag_RISCV_arch/Tag_RISCV_unaligned_access merge as
specified by
https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/blob/master/riscv-elf.adoc#attributes
For the deprecated Tag_RISCV_priv_spec{,_minor,_revision}, dump the attribute to
the output iff all input agree on the value. This is different from GNU ld but
our simple approach should be ok for deprecated tags.
`RISCVAttributeParser::handler` currently warns about unknown tags. This
behavior is retained. In GNU ld arm, tags >= 64 (mod 128) are ignored with a
warning. If RISC-V ever wants to do something similar
(https://github.com/riscv-non-isa/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/issues/352), consider
documenting it in the psABI and changing RISCVAttributeParser.
Like GNU ld, zero value integer attributes and empty string attributes are not
dumped to the output.
Reviewed By: asb, kito-cheng
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D138550
Allowing incorrect version scripts is not a helpful default. Flip that
to help users find their bugs at build time rather than at run time.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135402
https://github.com/riscv/riscv-elf-psabi-doc/pull/190 introduced STO_RISCV_VARIANT_CC.
The linker should:
* Copy the STO_RISCV_VARIANT_CC bit to .symtab/.dynsym: already fulfilled after
82ed93ea05
* Produce DT_RISCV_VARIANT_CC if at least one R_RISCV_JUMP_SLOT relocation
references a symbol with the STO_RISCV_VARIANT_CC bit. Done by this patch.
Reviewed By: kito-cheng
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D107951
Solve two issues that showed up when using LLD with Unreal Engine & FASTBuild:
1. It seems the S_OBJNAME record doesn't always record the "precomp signature". We were relying on that to match the PCH.OBJ with their dependent-OBJ.
2. MSVC link.exe is able to link a PCH.OBJ when the "precomp signatureÈ doesn't match, but LLD was failing. This was occuring since the Unreal Engine Build Tool was compiling the PCH.OBJ, but the dependent-OBJ were compiled & cached through FASTBuild. Upon a clean rebuild, the PCH.OBJs were recompiled by the Unreal Build Tool, thus the "precomp signatures" were changing; however the OBJs were already cached by FASTBuild, thus having an old "precomp signatures".
We now ignore "precomp signatures" and properly fallback to cmd-line name lookup, like MSVC link.exe does, and only fail if the PCH.OBJ type stream doesn't match the count expected by the dependent-OBJ.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136762
Previously, we used SHA-1 for hashing the CodeView type records.
SHA-1 in `GloballyHashedType::hashType()` is coming top in the profiles. By simply replacing with BLAKE3, the link time is reduced in our case from 15 sec to 13 sec. I am only using MSVC .OBJs in this case. As a reference, the resulting .PDB is approx 2.1GiB and .EXE is approx 250MiB.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137101
MSVC records the command line arguments in S_ENVBLOCK, skipping the input file arguments.
This patch adds this filtering on lld-link side.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D137723
Allowing incorrect version scripts is not a helpful default. Flip that
to help users find their bugs at build time rather than at run time.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135402
Mach-O ld64 supports -w to suppress warnings. GNU ld 2.40 will support the
option as well (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=29654).
This feature has some small value. E.g. when analyzing a large executable with
relocation overflow issues, we may use --noinhibit-exec --emit-relocs to get an
output file with static relocations despite relocation overflow issues. -w can
significantly improve the link time as printing the massive warnings is slow.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D136569
This reverts commit 096f93e73d.
Revert "[Libomptarget] Make the plugins ingore undefined exported symbols"
This reverts commit 3f62314c23.
Revert "[LLD] Enable --no-undefined-version by default."
This reverts commit 7ec8b0d162.
Three commits are reverted because of the current omp build fail
with GNU ld. See discussion here: https://reviews.llvm.org/rG096f93e73dc3
Allowing incorrect version scripts is not a helpful default. Flip that
to help users find their bugs at build time rather than at run time.
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135402
Previously unless ZERO_AR_DATE was set to any value, ld64.lld would
embed non-hermetic timestamps into the final binary. This flips that
default to zero those values unless ZERO_AR_DATE is set explicitly to 0.
As far as I know there isn't a downside to this, except that it differs
from ld64.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D135529
Builds that error out on duplicate symbols can still succeed if the symbols
will be dead stripped. Currently, this is the current behavior in ld64.
https://github.com/apple-oss-distributions/ld64/blob/main/src/ld/Resolver.cpp#L2018.
In order to provide an easier to path for adoption, introduce a new flag that will
retain compatibility with ld64's behavior (similar to `--deduplicate-literals`). This is
turned off by default since we do not encourage this behavior in the linker.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D134794
In GNU ld,
* --version skips linker input processing.
* -v and -V keep processing if there is any input file. -V has more
information we don't support.
We currently make -V an alias for --version which skips input processing.
On many `*-freebsd` and `powerpc-*` targets, `gcc -v` passes `-V` to ld
and expects to process input. Make -V an alias for -v to provide
compatibility.
Fix https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/57859
This is similar to the `-alias` CLI option, but it gives finer-grained
control in that it allows the aliased symbols to be treated as private
externs.
While working on this, I realized that our `-alias` handling did not
cover the cases where the aliased symbol is a common or dylib symbol,
nor the case where we have an undefined that gets treated specially and
converted to a defined later on. My N_INDR handling neglects this too
for now; I've added checks and TODO messages for these.
`N_INDR` symbols cropped up as part of our attempt to link swift-stdlib.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis, thevinster
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133825
This is similar to the `-alias` CLI option, but it gives finer-grained
control in that it allows the aliased symbols to be treated as private
externs.
While working on this, I realized that our `-alias` handling did not
cover the cases where the aliased symbol is a common or dylib symbol,
nor the case where we have an undefined that gets treated specially and
converted to a defined later on. My N_INDR handling neglects this too
for now; I've added checks and TODO messages for these.
`N_INDR` symbols cropped up as part of our attempt to link swift-stdlib.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thakis, thevinster
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133825
1. Fixed rST hyperlink syntax
2. Renamed LD64 -> ld64
3. Moved up the `-no_deduplicate` section so it is right under the
section talking about how our default dedup behavior differs; IMO
it makes more sense to read them in that order
4. De-bullet-listed some other sections so we have less whitespace in
the rendered page
5. Since the Mach-O LLD Port page has only one sub-page, don't render an
entire toctree with just one item. Use a "See also" box instead.
6. Wrap lines at 80 chars.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, thevinster
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133717
`clang -gz=zstd a.o` passes this option to the linker. This option compresses output
debug sections with zstd and sets ch_type to ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD. As of today, very
few DWARF consumers recognize ELFCOMPRESS_ZSTD.
Use the llvm::zstd::compress API with level llvm::zstd::DefaultCompression (5),
which we may tune after we have more experience with zstd output.
zstd has built-in parallel compression support (so we don't need to do D117853
for zlib), which is not leveraged yet.
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D133548
so that lld accepts relocatable object files produced by `clang -c -g -gz=zstd`.
We don't want to increase the size of InputSection, so do redundant but cheap
ch_type checks instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129406
These will be LLD-specific options to support Control Flow Guard for the
MinGW target. They are disabled by default, but enabling `--guard-cf`
will also enable `--guard-longjmp` unless `--no-guard-longjmp` is also
specified. These options maps to `-guard:cf,[no]longjmp`.
Note that these features require the `_load_config_used` symbol to
contain the load config directory and be filled with the required
symbols. While current versions of mingw-w64 do not supply this symbol,
the user can provide their own version of it.
Reviewed By: MaskRay, rnk
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132808
I wasn't able to find any docs for Mach-O in `lld/docs`, so here's an attempt at adding basic docs. One of my goals here is to make it easy for users who are unfamiliar with linkers to successfully use lld.
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, int3
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D132893
This is an entirely new embedded directive - extending the GNU ld
command line option --exclude-symbols to be usable in embedded
directives too.
(GNU ld.bfd also got support for the same new directive, currently in
the latest git version, after the 2.39 branch.)
This works as an inverse to the regular embedded dllexport directives,
for cases when autoexport of all eligible symbols is performed.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130120
This adds support for the existing GNU ld command line option, which
allows excluding individual symbols from autoexport (when linking a
DLL and no symbols are marked explicitly as dllexported).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D130118
This was recently introduced in GNU linkers and it makes sense for
ld.lld to have the same support. This implementation omits checking if
the input string is valid json to reduce size bloat.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D131439
This just removes the code that gates the logic. The main issue here is
perf impact: without {D122258}, LLD takes a significant perf hit because
it now has to do a lot more work in the input parsing phase. But with
that change to eliminate unnecessary EH frames from input object files,
the perf overhead here is minimal. Concretely, here are the numbers for
some builds as measured on my 16-core Mac Pro:
**chromium_framework**
This is without the use of `-femit-dwarf-unwind=no-compact-unwind`:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.826 ± 0.019 1.962 ± 0.034 [ +6.5% .. +8.4%]
user_time 9.306 ± 0.054 9.926 ± 0.082 [ +6.2% .. +7.1%]
wall_time 8.225 ± 0.068 8.947 ± 0.128 [ +8.0% .. +9.6%]
samples 15 22
With that flag enabled, the regression mostly disappears, as hoped:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.839 ± 0.062 1.866 ± 0.068 [ -0.9% .. +3.8%]
user_time 9.452 ± 0.068 9.490 ± 0.067 [ -0.1% .. +0.9%]
wall_time 8.383 ± 0.127 8.452 ± 0.114 [ -0.1% .. +1.8%]
samples 17 21
**Unnamed internal app**
Without `-femit-dwarf-unwind`, this is the perf hit:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.372 ± 0.029 1.317 ± 0.024 [ -4.6% .. -3.5%]
user_time 2.835 ± 0.028 2.980 ± 0.027 [ +4.8% .. +5.4%]
wall_time 3.205 ± 0.079 3.383 ± 0.066 [ +4.9% .. +6.2%]
samples 102 83
With `-femit-dwarf-unwind`, the perf hit almost disappears:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.274 ± 0.026 1.270 ± 0.025 [ -0.9% .. +0.3%]
user_time 2.812 ± 0.023 2.822 ± 0.035 [ +0.1% .. +0.7%]
wall_time 3.166 ± 0.047 3.174 ± 0.059 [ -0.2% .. +0.7%]
samples 95 97
Just for fun, I measured the impact of `-femit-dwarf-unwind` on ld64
(`base` has the extra DWARF unwind info in the input object files,
`diff` doesn't):
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.128 ± 0.010 1.124 ± 0.023 [ -1.3% .. +0.6%]
user_time 7.176 ± 0.030 7.106 ± 0.094 [ -1.5% .. -0.4%]
wall_time 7.874 ± 0.041 7.795 ± 0.121 [ -1.7% .. -0.3%]
samples 16 25
And for LLD:
base diff difference (95% CI)
sys_time 1.315 ± 0.019 1.280 ± 0.019 [ -3.2% .. -2.0%]
user_time 2.980 ± 0.022 2.822 ± 0.016 [ -5.5% .. -5.0%]
wall_time 3.369 ± 0.038 3.175 ± 0.033 [ -6.2% .. -5.3%]
samples 47 47
So parsing the extra EH frames is a lot more expensive for us than for
ld64. But given that we are quite a lot faster than ld64 to begin with,
I guess this isn't entirely unexpected...
Reviewed By: #lld-macho, oontvoo
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129540
Add FORCE_LLD_DIAGNOSTICS_CRASH inspired by the existing
FORCE_CLANG_DIAGNOSTICS_CRASH.
This is particularly useful for people customizing LLD as they may
want to modify the crash reporting behavior.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128195
`--time-trace=foo` has the same behavior as `--time-trace --time-trace-file=<file>`
had previously.
Also, for mac, make --time-trace-granularity *not* imply --time-trace, to match
behavior of the ELF port.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128451
.zdebug is unlikely used any longer: gcc -gz switched from legacy
.zdebug to SHF_COMPRESSED with binutils 2.26 (2016), which has been
several years. clang 14 dropped -gz=zlib-gnu support. According to
Debian Code Search (`gz=zlib-gnu`), no project uses -gz=zlib-gnu.
Remove .zdebug support to (a) simplify code and (b) allow removal of llvm-mc's
--compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu.
In case the old object file `a.o` uses .zdebug, run `objcopy --decompress-debug-sections a.o`
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D126793
We picked common-page-size to match GNU ld. Recently, the resolution to GNU ld
https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28824 (milestone: 2.39) switched
to max-page-size so that the last page can be protected by RELRO in case the
system page size is larger than common-page-size.
Thanks to our two RW PT_LOAD scheme (D58892), switching to max-page-size does
not change file size (while GNU ld's scheme may increase file size).
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D125410
D86142 introduced --fortran-common and defaulted it to true (matching GNU ld
but deviates from gold/macOS ld64). The default state was motivated by transparently
supporting some FORTRAN 77 programs (Fortran 90 deprecated common blocks).
Now I think it again. I believe we made a mistake to change the default:
* this is a weird and legacy rule, though the breakage is very small
* --fortran-common introduced complexity to parallel symbol resolution and will slow down it
* --fortran-common more likely causes issues when users mix COMMON and
STB_GLOBAL definitions (see https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/48570 and
https://maskray.me/blog/2022-02-06-all-about-common-symbols).
I have seen several issues in our internal projects and Android.
On the other hand, --no-fortran-common is safer since
COMMON/STB_GLOBAL have the same semantics related to archive member extraction.
Therefore I think we should switch back, not punishing the common uage.
A platform wanting --fortran-common can implement ld.lld as a shell script
wrapper around `lld -flavor gnu --fortran-common "$@"`.
Reviewed By: ikudrin, sfertile
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122450
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/parallel-input-file-parsing/60164
initializeSymbols currently sets Defined::section and handles non-prevailing
COMDAT groups. Move the code to the parallel postParse to reduce work from the
single-threading code path and make parallel section initialization infeasible.
Postpone reporting duplicate symbol errors so that the messages have the
section information. (`Defined::section` is assigned in postParse and another
thread may not have the information).
* duplicated-synthetic-sym.s: BinaryFile duplicate definition (very rare) now
has no section information
* comdat-binding: `%t/w.o %t/g.o` leads to an undesired undefined symbol. This
is not ideal but we report a diagnostic to inform that this is unsupported.
(See release note)
* comdat-discarded-lazy.s: %tdef.o is unextracted. The new behavior (discarded
section error) makes more sense
* i386-comdat.s: switched to a better approach working around
.gnu.linkonce.t.__x86.get_pc_thunk.bx in glibc<2.32 for x86-32.
Drop the ancient no-longer-relevant workaround for __i686.get_pc_thunk.bx
Depends on D120640
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626
This is a new mode for handling unresolved symbols that allows all
symbols to be imported in the same that they would be in the case of
`-fpie` or `-shared`, but generting an otherwise fixed/non-relocatable
binary.
Code linked in this way should still be compiled with `-fPIC` so that
data symbols can be resolved via imports.
This essentially allows the building of static binaries that have
dynamic imports. See:
https://github.com/emscripten-core/emscripten/issues/12682
As with other uses of the experimental dynamic linking ABI, this
behaviour will produce a warning unless run with `--experimental-pic`.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91577
https://discourse.llvm.org/t/parallel-input-file-parsing/60164
initializeSymbols currently sets Defined::section and handles non-prevailing
COMDAT groups. Move the code to the parallel postParse to reduce work from the
single-threading code path and make parallel section initialization infeasible.
Postpone reporting duplicate symbol errors so that the messages have the
section information. (`Defined::section` is assigned in postParse and another
thread may not have the information).
* duplicated-synthetic-sym.s: BinaryFile duplicate definition (very rare) now
has no section information
* comdat-binding: `%t/w.o %t/g.o` leads to an undesired undefined symbol. This
is not ideal but we report a diagnostic to inform that this is unsupported.
(See release note)
* comdat-discarded-lazy.s: %tdef.o is unextracted. The new behavior (discarded
section error) makes more sense
Depends on D120640
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120626
GNU ld 2.38 added -z pack-relative-relocs which is similar to
--pack-dyn-relocs=relr but synthesizes the `GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR` version
dependency if a shared object named `libc.so.*` has a `GLIBC_2.*` version
dependency.
This is used to implement the (as some glibc folks call) version lockout
mechanism. Add this option, because glibc does not want to support
--pack-dyn-relocs=relr which does not add `GLIBC_ABI_DT_RELR`.
See https://maskray.me/blog/2021-10-31-relative-relocations-and-relr for
detail.
Close https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/53775
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120701
The current output section type allows to set the ELF section type to
SHT_PROGBITS or SHT_NOLOAD. This patch allows an arbitrary section value
to be specified. Some common SHT_* literal names are supported as well.
```
SECTIONS {
note (TYPE=SHT_NOTE) : { BYTE(8) *(note) }
init_array ( TYPE=14 ) : { QUAD(14) }
fini_array (TYPE = SHT_FINI_ARRAY) : { QUAD(15) }
}
```
When `sh_type` is specified, it is an error if an input section has a different type.
Our syntax is compatible with GNU ld 2.39 (https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=28841).
Reviewed By: peter.smith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118840
This relands 73e585e44d (and 0574b5fc65), with a fix for
the failing test (by using Optional<StringRef>s instead of
making StringRef::empty() mean absence of value).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D118070
