On darwin in final linked images, the __TEXT segment covers that start of the
file. That means in memory a process can see the mach_header (and load commands)
for every loaded image in a process. There are APIs that take and return the
mach_header addresses as a way to specify a particular loaded image.
For completeness, any code can get the address of the mach_header of the image
it is in by using &__dso_handle. In addition there are mach-o type specific
symbols like __mh_execute_header.
The linker needs to supply a definition for any of these symbols if used. But
the address the symbol it resolves to is not in any section. Instead it is the
address of the start of the __TEXT segment.
I needed to make a small change to SimpleFileNode to not override
resetNextIndex() because the Driver creates a SimpleFileNode to hold the
internal/implicit files that the context/writer can create. For some reason
SimpleFileNode overrode resetNextIndex() to do nothing instead of reseting
the index (which mach-o needs if the internal file is an archive).
llvm-svn: 221822
Darwin uses two-level-namespace lookup for symbols which means the static
linker records where each symbol must be found at runtime. Thus defining a
symbol in a dylib loaded earlier will not effect where symbols needed by
later dylibs will be found. Instead overriding is done through a section
of type S_INTERPOSING which contains tuples of <interposer, interposee>.
llvm-svn: 221421
This is a minimally useful pass to construct the __unwind_info section in a
final object from the various __compact_unwind inputs. Currently it doesn't
produce any compressed pages, only works for x86_64 and will fail if any
function ends up without __compact_unwind.
rdar://problem/18208653
llvm-svn: 218703
.gnu.linkonce sections are similar to section groups.
They were supported before section groups existed and provided a way
to resolve COMDAT sections using a different design.
There are few implementations that use .gnu.linkonce sections
to store simple floating point constants which doesnot require complex section
group support but need a way to store only one copy of the floating point
constant in a binary.
.gnu.linkonce based symbol resolution achieves that.
Review : http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3242
llvm-svn: 205280
This reverts commit 5d5ca72a7876c3dd3dd1db83dc6a0d74be9e2cd1.
Discuss on a better design to raise error when there is a similar group with Gnu
linkonce sections and COMDAT sections.
llvm-svn: 205224
.gnu.linkonce sections are similar to section groups. They were supported before
section groups existed and provided a way to resolve COMDAT sections using a
different design. There are few implementations that use .gnu.linkonce sections
to store simple floating point constants which doesnot require complex section
group support but need a way to store only one copy of the floating point
constant. .gnu.linkonce based symbol resolution achieves that.
llvm-svn: 205163
This patch is to basically move the functionality to construct Data Directory
from IdataPass to WriterPECOFF.
Data Directory is a part of the PE/COFF header and contains the addresses of
the import tables.
We used to represent the link from Data Directory to the import tables as
relocation references. The idea behind it is that, because relocation
references are processed by the Writer, we wouldn't have to do anything special
to fill the addresses of the import tables. I thought that the addresses would
be set "automatically".
But it turned out that that design made the pass and the writer rather
complicated. In order to make relocation references between Data Directory to
the import tables, these data structures needed to be represented as Atom.
However, because Data Directory is not a section content but a part of the
PE/COFF header, it did not fit well as an Atom. So we ended up having
complicated code both in IdataPass and the writer.
This patch simplifies it.
One side effect of this patch is that we now have ".idata.a", ".idata.d" and
"idata.t" sections for the import address table, the import directory table,
and the import lookup table. The writer looks for the sections by name to find
the start addresses of the sections. We probably should have a better way to
find a specific atom from the core linking result, but currently using the
section name seems to be the easiest way to do that. The Windows loader do not
care about the import table's section layout.
llvm-svn: 197016
This also makes it support debugging executables built with lld.
Initial patch done by Bigcheese. This is only a revised patch to
have the functionality in the Writer.
llvm-svn: 191032
It looks like there is a possibility of seeing RO/RW note sections
and we would need to create an appropriate RO/RW segment associated
with them.
Adds a test too.
llvm-svn: 189907
typeTLV content type is used by Darwin to represent thread local
storage. A new contentType has to be made to represent ELF
thread local storage data. These have been set to
- typeThreadZeroFill (represents TBSS storage)
- typeThreadData (represents TDATA storage)
llvm-svn: 189137
This patch adds a new pass, IdataPass, to transform shared atom references
to real references and to construct the .idata section data. With this patch
lld can produce a working Hello World program by linking it against
kernel32.dll and user32.dll.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1096
llvm-svn: 186071
Since most content types (e.g. typeCode) have a
preferred Permission, add a function to do that mapping.
Then hook up to YAML Reader and Writer such that
the 'permissions:' key does not need to be specified unless
overriding what the content type prefers.
llvm-svn: 171929
