Fangrui Song 4ce56b8122 [ELF] Add -z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc=<section_glob>=<value> ...

... to customize the tombstone value we use for an absolute relocation
referencing a discarded symbol. This can be used as a workaround when
some debug processing tool has trouble with current -1 tombstone value
(https://bugs.chromium.org/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=1102223#c11 )

For example, to get the current built-in rules (not considering the .debug_line special case for ICF):

```
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc='.debug_*=0xffffffffffffffff'
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc=.debug_loc=0xfffffffffffffffe
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc=.debug_ranges=0xfffffffffffffffe
```

To get GNU ld (as of binutils 2.35)'s behavior:

```
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc='*=0'
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc=.debug_ranges=1
```

This option has other use cases. For example, if we want to check
whether a non-SHF_ALLOC section has dead relocations.
With this patch, we can run a regular LLD and run another with a special
-z dead-reloc-in-nonalloc=, then compare their output.

Reviewed By: thakis

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D83264

2020-07-08 10:15:16 -07:00

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