This patch adds support for the MachO .alt_entry assembly directive, and uses
it for global aliases with non-zero GEP offsets. The alt_entry flag indicates
that a symbol should be layed out immediately after the preceding symbol.
Conceptually it introduces an alternate entry point for a function or data
structure. E.g.:
safe_foo:
// check preconditions for foo
.alt_entry fast_foo
fast_foo:
// body of foo, can assume preconditions.
The .alt_entry flag is also implicitly set on assembly aliases of the form:
a = b + C
where C is a non-zero constant, since these have the same effect as an
alt_entry symbol: they introduce a label that cannot be moved relative to the
preceding one. Setting the alt_entry flag on aliases of this form fixes
http://llvm.org/PR25381.
llvm-svn: 263521
This commit accomplish two goals:
1) it's a step forward to deprecate macho-dump, now less than 40 tests
rely on it.
2) It tests all the MachO specific features introduced in llvm-readobj in
the following commits: r246789, r246665, r246474.
While the conversion is mostly mechanical (I double-checked all the
tests output one by one, but still), a post-commit review is greatly
appreciated.
llvm-svn: 246904
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