Executable sections should not be padded with zero by default. On some
architectures, 0x00 is the start of a valid instruction sequence, so can confuse
disassembly between InputSections (and indeed the start of the next InputSection
in some situations). Further, in the case of misjumps into padding, padding may
start to be executed silently.
On x86, the "0xcc" byte represents the int3 trap instruction. It is a single
byte long so can serve well as padding. This change switches x86 (and x86_64) to
use this value for padding in executable sections, if no linker script directive
overrides it. It also puts the behaviour into place making it easy to change the
behaviour of other targets when desired. I do not know the relevant instruction
sequences for trap instructions on other targets however, so somebody should add
this separately.
Because the old behaviour simply wrote padding in the whole section before
overwriting most of it, this change also modifies the padding algorithm to write
padding only where needed. This in turn has caused a small behaviour change with
regards to what values are written via Fill commands in linker scripts, bringing
it into line with ld.bfd. The fill value is now written starting from the end of
the previous block, which means that it always starts from the first byte of the
fill, whereas the old behaviour meant that the padding sometimes started mid-way
through the fill value. See the test changes for more details.
Reviewed by: ruiu
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D30886
Bugzilla: http://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32227
llvm-svn: 299635
LinkerScript.cpp contains both the linker script processor and the
linker script parser. I put both into a single file, but the file grown
too large, so it's time to put them into two different files.
llvm-svn: 299515
This requires collectign all symbols referenced in the linker script
and adding them to symbol table as undefined symbol.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D31147
llvm-svn: 298577
LinkerScript used to be a template class, so we couldn't instantiate
that class in elf::link. We instantiated ScriptConfig class earlier
instead so that the linker script parser can store configurations to
the object.
Now that LinkerScript is not a template, it doesn't make sense to
separate ScriptConfig from LinkerScript. This patch merges them.
llvm-svn: 298457
This fixes pr32031 by representing the expressions results as a
SectionBase and offset. This allows us to use an input section
directly instead of getting lost trying to compute an offset in an
outputsection when not all the information is available yet.
This also creates a struct to represent the *value* of and expression,
allowing the expression itself to be a simple typedef. I think this is
easier to read and will make it easier to extend the expression
computation to handle more complicated cases.
llvm-svn: 298079
