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
Previously section groups are doubly linked to their children.
That is, an atom representing a group has group-child references
to its group contents, and content atoms also have group-parent
references to the group atom. That relationship was invariant;
if X has a group-child edge to Y, Y must have a group-parent
edge to X.
However we were not using group-parent references at all. The
resolver only needs group-child edges.
This patch simplifies the section group by removing the unused
reverse edge. No functionality change intended.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3945
llvm-svn: 210066
Layout-before edges are no longer used for layout, but they are
still there for dead-stripping. If we would just remove them
from code, LLD would wrongly remove live atoms that were
referenced by layout-befores.
This patch fixes the issue. Before dead-stripping, it scans all
atoms to construct a reverse map for layout-after edges. Dead-
stripping pass uses the map to traverse the graph.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D3986
llvm-svn: 210057
.gnu.linkonce sections are similar to section groups.
They were supported before section groups existed and provided a way
to resolve COMDAT sections using a different design.
There are few implementations that use .gnu.linkonce sections
to store simple floating point constants which doesnot require complex section
group support but need a way to store only one copy of the floating point
constant in a binary.
.gnu.linkonce based symbol resolution achieves that.
Review : http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3242
llvm-svn: 205280
This reverts commit 5d5ca72a7876c3dd3dd1db83dc6a0d74be9e2cd1.
Discuss on a better design to raise error when there is a similar group with Gnu
linkonce sections and COMDAT sections.
llvm-svn: 205224
.gnu.linkonce sections are similar to section groups. They were supported before
section groups existed and provided a way to resolve COMDAT sections using a
different design. There are few implementations that use .gnu.linkonce sections
to store simple floating point constants which doesnot require complex section
group support but need a way to store only one copy of the floating point
constant. .gnu.linkonce based symbol resolution achieves that.
llvm-svn: 205163
Currently we use both layout-after and layout-before edges to specify atom
orders in the resulting executable. We have a complex piece of code in
LayoutPass.cpp to deal with both types of layout specifiers.
(In the following description, I denote "Atom A having a layout-after edge
to B" as "A -> B", and A's layout-before to B as "A => B".)
However, that complexity is not really needed for this reason: If there
are atoms such that A => B, B -> A is always satisifed, so using only layout-
after relationships will yield the same result as the current code.
Actually we have a piece of complex code that verifies that, for each A -> B,
B => [ X => Y => ... => Z => ] A is satsified, where X, Y, ... Z are all
zero-size atoms. We can get rid of the code from our codebase because layout-
before is basically redundant.
I think we can simplify the code for layout-after even more than this, but
I want to just remove this pass for now for simplicity.
Layout-before edges are still there for dead-stripping, so this change won't
break it. We will remove layout-before in a followup patch once we fix the
dead-stripping pass.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3164
llvm-svn: 204966
This restores the debug output to how it was before r197727 broke it. This
went undetected because the corresponding test was never run due to broken
feature detection.
llvm-svn: 202079
The main goal of this patch is to allow "mach-o encoded as yaml" and "native
encoded as yaml" documents to be intermixed. They are distinguished via
yaml tags at the start of the document. This will enable all mach-o test cases
to be written using yaml instead of checking in object files.
The Registry was extend to allow yaml tag handlers to be registered. The
mach-o Reader adds a yaml tag handler for the tag "!mach-o".
Additionally, this patch fixes some buffer ownership issues. When parsing
mach-o binaries, the mach-o atoms can have pointers back into the memory
mapped .o file. But with yaml encoded mach-o, name and content are ephemeral,
so a copyRefs parameter was added to cause the mach-o atoms to make their
own copy.
llvm-svn: 198986
The fallback atom was used only when it's searching for a symbol in a library;
if an undefined symbol was not found in a library, the LLD looked for its
fallback symbol in the library.
Although it worked in most cases, because symbols with fallbacks usually occur
only in OLDNAMES.LIB (a standard library), that behavior was incompatible with
link.exe. This patch fixes the issue so that the semantics is the same as
MSVC's link.exe
The new (and correct, I believe) behavior is this:
- If there's no definition for an undefined atom, replace the undefined atom
with its fallback and then proceed (e.g. look in the next file or stop
linking as usual.)
Weak External symbols are underspecified in the Microsoft PE/COFF spec. However,
as long as I observed the behavior of link.exe, this seems to be what we want
for compatibility.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2162
llvm-svn: 195269
We can add multiple undefined atoms having the same name to the symbol table.
If such atoms are added, the symbol table compares their canBeNull attributes,
and select one having a stronger constraint. If their canBeNulls are the same,
the choice is arbitrary. Currently it choose the existing one.
This patch changes the preference, so that the symbol table choose the new one
if the new atom has a greater canBeNull or a fallback atom. This shouldn't
change the behavior except the case described below.
A new undefined atom may have a new fallback atom attribute. By choosing the new
atom, we can update the fallback atom during Core Linking. PE/COFF actually need
that. For example, _lseek is an alias for __lseek on Windows. One of an object
file in OLDNAMES.LIB has an undefined atom for _lseek with the fallback to
__lseek. When the linker tries to resolve _read, it supposed to read the file
from OLDNAMES.LIB and use the new fallback from the file. Currently LLD cannot
handle such case because duplicate undefined atoms with the same attributes are
ignored.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2161
llvm-svn: 194777
This patch fixes a bug in r190608. The results of a comparison function
passed to std::sort must be transitive, which is, if a < b and b < c, and if
a != b, a < c must be also true. CompareAtoms::compare did not actually
guarantee the transitivity. As a result the sort results were sometimes just
wrong.
Consider there are three atoms, X, Y, and Z, whose file ordinals are 1, 2, 3,
respectively. Z has a property "layout-after X". In this case, all the
following conditionals become true:
X < Y because X's ordinal is less than Y's
Y < Z because Y's ordinal is less than Z's
Z < X because of the layout-after relationship
This is not of course transitive. The reason why this happened is because
we used follow-on relationships for comparison if two atoms falls in the same
follow-on chain, but we used each atom's properties if they did not. This patch
fixes the issue by using follow-on root atoms for comparison to get consistent
results.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1980
llvm-svn: 193029
In COFF, an undefined symbol can have up to one alternative name. If a symbol
is resolved by its regular name, then it's linked normally. If a symbol is not
found in any input files, all references to the regular name are resolved using
the alternative name. If the alternative name is not found, it's a link error.
This mechanism is called "weak externals".
To support this mechanism, I added a new member function fallback() to undefined
atom. If an undefined atom has the second name, fallback() returns a new undefined
atom that should be used instead of the original one to resolve undefines. If it
does not have the second name, the function returns nullptr.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1550
llvm-svn: 190625
Nick Kledzik