Mach-O has a "fat" (or "universal") variant where the same contents built for
different architectures are concatenated into one file with a table-of-contents
header at the start. But this leaves a dilemma for the linker - which
architecture to use.
Normally, the linker command line -arch is used to force which slice of any fat
files are used. The clang compiler always passes -arch to the linker when
invoking it. But some Makefiles invoke the linker directly and don’t specify
the -arch option. For those cases, the linker scans all input files in command
line order and finds the first non-fat object file. Whatever architecture it
is becomes the architecture for the link.
llvm-svn: 217189
On Darwin at runtime, dyld will prefer to use the export trie of a dylib instead
of the traditional symbol table (which is large and requires a binary search).
This change enables the linker to generate an export trie and to prefer it if
found in a dylib being linked against. This also simples the yaml for dylibs
because the yaml form of the trie can be reduced to just a sequence of names.
llvm-svn: 217066
In general two-level namespace means each program records exactly which dylib
each undefined (imported) symbol comes from. But, sometimes the implementor
wants to hide the implementation dylib. For instance libSytem.dylib is the base
dylib all Darwin programs must link with. A few years ago it was split up
into two dozen dylibs by all are hidden behind libSystem.dylib which re-exports
each sub-dylib. All clients still think libSystem.dylib is the implementor.
To support this, the linker must load "indirect" dylibs and not just the
"direct" dylibs specified on the command line. This is done in the
createImplicitFiles() method after all command line specified files are
loaded. Since an indirect dylib may have already been loaded as a direct dylib
(or indirectly via a previous direct dylib), the MachOLinkingContext keeps
a list of all loaded dylibs.
With this change hello world can now be linked against the real OS or SDK.
llvm-svn: 215605
Sometimes compilers emit data into code sections (e.g. constant pools or
jump tables). These runs of data can throw off disassemblers. The solution
in mach-o is that ranges of data-in-code are encoded into a table pointed to
by the LC_DATA_IN_CODE load command.
The way the data-in-code information is encoded into lld's Atom model is that
that start and end of each data run is marked with a Reference whose offset
is the start/end of the data run. For arm, the switch back to code also marks
whether it is thumb or arm code.
llvm-svn: 213901
All architecture specific handling is now done in the appropriate
ArchHandler subclass.
The StubsPass and GOTPass have been simplified. All architecture specific
variations in stubs are now encoded in a table which is vended by the
current ArchHandler.
llvm-svn: 213187
This is first step in reworking how mach-o relocations are processed.
The existing KindHandler is going to become a delgate/helper object for
processing architecture specific references. The KindHandler knows how
to convert mach-o relocations into References and back, as well, as fixing
up the content the relocation is on.
One of the messy things about mach-o relocations is that they sometime
come in pairs, but the pairs still convert to one lld::Reference. So, the
conversion has to detect pairs (arch specific) and change the stride.
llvm-svn: 211921
The main goal of this patch is to allow "mach-o encoded as yaml" and "native
encoded as yaml" documents to be intermixed. They are distinguished via
yaml tags at the start of the document. This will enable all mach-o test cases
to be written using yaml instead of checking in object files.
The Registry was extend to allow yaml tag handlers to be registered. The
mach-o Reader adds a yaml tag handler for the tag "!mach-o".
Additionally, this patch fixes some buffer ownership issues. When parsing
mach-o binaries, the mach-o atoms can have pointers back into the memory
mapped .o file. But with yaml encoded mach-o, name and content are ephemeral,
so a copyRefs parameter was added to cause the mach-o atoms to make their
own copy.
llvm-svn: 198986
The main changes are in:
include/lld/Core/Reference.h
include/lld/ReaderWriter/Reader.h
Everything else is details to support the main change.
1) Registration based Readers
Previously, lld had a tangled interdependency with all the Readers. It would
have been impossible to make a streamlined linker (say for a JIT) which
just supported one file format and one architecture (no yaml, no archives, etc).
The old model also required a LinkingContext to read an object file, which
would have made .o inspection tools awkward.
The new model is that there is a global Registry object. You programmatically
register the Readers you want with the registry object. Whenever you need to
read/parse a file, you ask the registry to do it, and the registry tries each
registered reader.
For ease of use with the existing lld code base, there is one Registry
object inside the LinkingContext object.
2) Changing kind value to be a tuple
Beside Readers, the registry also keeps track of the mapping for Reference
Kind values to and from strings. Along with that, this patch also fixes
an ambiguity with the previous Reference::Kind values. The problem was that
we wanted to reuse existing relocation type values as Reference::Kind values.
But then how can the YAML write know how to convert a value to a string? The
fix is to change the 32-bit Reference::Kind into a tuple with an 8-bit namespace
(e.g. ELF, COFFF, etc), an 8-bit architecture (e.g. x86_64, PowerPC, etc), and
a 16-bit value. This tuple system allows conversion to and from strings with
no ambiguities.
llvm-svn: 197727
This patch adds support for converting normalized mach-o to and from binary
mach-o. It also changes WriterMachO (which previously directly wrote a
mach-o binary given a set of Atoms) to instead do it in two steps. The first
step uses normalizedFromAtoms() to convert Atoms to normalized mach-o, and the
second step uses writeBinary() which to generate the mach-o binary file.
llvm-svn: 194167
