COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. If a target atom is
coalesced away, the referring atom is removed by Resolver, so that
they are treated as a group.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4028
llvm-svn: 211106
COFF supports a feature similar to ELF's section groups. This
patch implements it.
In ELF, section groups are identified by their names, and they are
treated somewhat differently from regular symbols. In COFF, the
feature is realized in a more straightforward way. A section can
have an annotation saying "if Nth section is linked, link this
section too."
Implementing such feature is easy. We can add a reference from a
target atom to an original atom, so that if the target is linked,
the original atom is also linked. If not linked, both will be
dead-stripped. So they are treated as a group.
I added a new reference type, kindAssociate. It does nothing except
preventing referenced atoms from being dead-stripped.
No change to the Resolver is needed.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, atanasyan
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3946
llvm-svn: 210240
/alternatename is a command line option to define a weak alias. You
can use it as /alternatename:foo=bar to define "foo" as a weak alias
for "bar".
Because it's a command line option, the weak alias mapping is in the
LinkingContext object, and not in a object file being read.
Previously, we looked up the mapping each time we read a new symbol
from a file, to check if there is a weak alias defined for the symbol.
That's not wrong, but had made function signature's a bit complicated --
we had to pass the mapping object to many functions. Now their
parameter lists are much cleaner.
This also has another (unrealized) benefit. parseFile() now read a
file and then add alias symbols to the file. In the first pass a
LinkingContext object is not used at all. That should make it easy
to read files from archive files speculatively, as the first pass
is free from side effect.
llvm-svn: 209486
We don't use sections with IMAGE_SYM_DEBUG attribute so we basically
want to the symbols for them when reading symbol table. When we skip
them, we need to skip auxiliary symbols too. Otherwise weird error
would happen because aux symbols would be interpreted as regular ones.
llvm-svn: 206931
definition below all of the header #include lines, LLD edition.
IF you want to know more details about this, you can see the recent
commits to Debug.h in LLVM. This is just the LLD segment of a cleanup
I'm doing globally for this macro.
llvm-svn: 206851
COMDAT_SELECT_LARGEST is a COMDAT type that make linker to choose the largest
definition from among all of the definition of a symbol. If the size is the
same, the choice is arbitrary.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3011
llvm-svn: 204172
The COFF spec says that the SectionNumber field in the symbol table is 16 bit
signed type, but MSVC treats the field as if it is unsigned.
llvm-svn: 203901
This results in some simplifications to the code where an OwningPtr had to
be used with the previous api and then ownership moved to a unique_ptr for
the rest of lld.
llvm-svn: 203809
An object whose machine type header value is unknown looks a bit odd but
is valid. If an object contains only machine-type-independent data, you
can leave the type field unspecified. Some files in oldname.lib are such
object files.
llvm-svn: 203752
Summary:
COMDAT_SELECT_SAME_SIZE is a COMDAT type that I presume exist only in COFF.
The semantics of the type is that linker should merge such COMDAT sections if
their sizes are the same. Otherwise it's an error.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2996
llvm-svn: 203308
If all input files are compatible with Structured Exception Handling, linker
is supposed to create an exectuable with a table for SEH handlers. The table
consists of exception handlers entry point addresses.
The basic idea of SEH in x86 Microsoft ABI is to list all valid entry points
of exception handlers in an read-only memory, so that an attacker cannot
override the addresses in it. In x86 ABI, data for exception handling is mostly
on stack, so it's volnerable to stack overflow attack. In order to protect
against it, Windows runtime uses the table to check a return address, to
ensure that the address is really an valid entry point for an exception handler.
Compiler emits a list of exception handler functions to .sxdata section. It
also emits a marker symbol "@feat.00" to indicate that the object is compatible
with SEH. SEH is a relatively new feature for COFF, and mixing SEH-compatible
and SEH-incompatible objects will result in an invalid executable, so is the
marker.
If all input files are compatible with SEH, LLD emits a SEH table. SEH table
needs to be pointed by Load Configuration strucutre, so when emitting a SEH
table LLD emits it too. The address of a Load Configuration will be stored to
the file header.
llvm-svn: 202248
Currently .drectve section contents are parsed after other sections are parsed.
That order may result in wrong results if other sections depend on command line
options in the directive section.
For example, if a weak symbol is defined using /alternatename option in the
directive section, we have to read it first and then read the text section
contents. Otherwise the weak symbol won't be defined.
This patch changes the order to fix the issue.
llvm-svn: 198071
There are many object files in the standard library who have empty .drective
sections. Parsing the empty string is not wrong but a waste.
llvm-svn: 198067
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
GroupedSectionsPass was a complicated pass. That pass's job was to reorder
atoms by section name, so that the atoms with the same section prefix will be
emitted consecutively to the executable. The pass added layout edges to atoms,
and let the layout pass to actually reorder them.
This patch simplifies the design by making GroupedSectionPass to directly
reorder atoms, rather than adding layout edges. This resembles ELF's
ArrayOrderPass.
This patch improves the performance of LLD; it used to take 7.1 seconds to
link LLD with LLD on my Macbook Pro, but it now takes 6.1 seconds.
llvm-svn: 196628
Atom ordinals are the indeces in a file. Currently the PECOFF reader assigns
ordinals for each section, so it's (incorrectly) assigning duplicate ordinals.
llvm-svn: 195852
