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clang-p2996/lld/test/MachO/cfstring-dedup.s
Jez Ng 8ec1033933 [lld-macho] Deduplicate CFStrings during ICF
`__cfstring` has embedded addends that foil ICF's hashing / equality
checks. (We can ignore embedded addends when doing ICF because the same
information gets recorded in our Reloc structs.) Therefore, in order to
properly dedup CFStrings, we create a mutable copy of the CFString and
zero out the embedded addends before performing any hashing / equality
checks.

(We did in fact have a partial implementation of CFString deduplication
already. However, it only worked when the cstrings they point to are at
identical offsets in their object files.)

I anticipate this approach can be extended to other similar
statically-allocated struct sections in the future.

In addition, we previously treated all references with differing addends
as unequal. This is not true when the references are to literals:
different addends may point to the same literal in the output binary. In
particular, `__cfstring` has such references to `__cstring`. I've
adjusted ICF's `equalsConstant` logic accordingly, and I've added a few
more tests to make sure the addend-comparison code path is adequately
covered.

Fixes https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/51281.

Reviewed By: #lld-macho, Roger

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D120137
2022-03-08 08:34:03 -05:00

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