Fangrui Song 47c5576d7d ELF: Create unique SHF_GNU_RETAIN sections for llvm.used global objects ...

If a global object is listed in `@llvm.used`, place it in a unique section with
the `SHF_GNU_RETAIN` flag. The section is a GC root under `ld --gc-sections`
with LLD>=13 or GNU ld>=2.36.

For front ends which do not expect to see multiple sections of the same name,
consider emitting `@llvm.compiler.used` instead of `@llvm.used`.

SHF_GNU_RETAIN is restricted to ELFOSABI_GNU and ELFOSABI_FREEBSD in
binutils. We don't do the restriction - see the rationale in D95749.

The integrated assembler has supported SHF_GNU_RETAIN since D95730.
GNU as>=2.36 supports section flag 'R'.
We don't need to worry about GNU ld support because older GNU ld just ignores
the unknown SHF_GNU_RETAIN.

With this change, `__attribute__((retain))` functions/variables emitted
by clang will get the SHF_GNU_RETAIN flag.

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D97448

2021-02-26 16:38:44 -08:00

4.2 KiB

Raw Blame History

View Raw