start-lib and end-lib are options to link object files in the same
semantics as archive files. If an object is in start-lib and end-lib,
the object is linked only when the file is needed to resolve
undefined symbols. That means, if an object is in start-lib and end-lib,
it behaves as if it were in an archive file.
In this patch, I introduced a new notion, LazyObjectFile. That is
analogous to Archive file type, but that works for a single object
file instead of for an archive file.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D18814
llvm-svn: 265710
We have to differentiate undefined symbols from bitcode and undefined
symbols from other sources.
Undefined symbols from bitcode should not inhibit the symbol being
internalized. Undefined symbols from other sources should.
llvm-svn: 265536
Our symbol representation was redundant, and some times would get out of
sync. It had an Elf_Sym, but some fields were copied to SymbolBody.
Different parts of the code were checking the bits in SymbolBody and
others were checking Elf_Sym.
There are two general approaches to fix this:
* Copy the required information and don't store and Elf_Sym.
* Don't copy the information and always use the Elf_Smy.
The second way sounds tempting, but has a big problem: we would have to
template SymbolBody. I started doing it, but it requires templeting
*everything* and creates a bit chicken and egg problem at the driver
where we have to find ELFT before we can create an ArchiveFile for
example.
As much as possible I compared the test differences with what gold and
bfd produce to make sure they are still valid. In most cases we are just
adding hidden visibility to a local symbol, which is harmless.
In most tests this is a small speedup. The only slowdown was scylla
(1.006X). The largest speedup was clang with no --build-id, -O3 or
--gc-sections (i.e.: focus on the relocations): 1.019X.
llvm-svn: 265293
DefinedElf was a superclass of DefinedRegular and SharedSymbol classes
and represented the notion of defined symbols created for ELF symbols.
It turned out that we didn't use that class often. We had only two
occurrences of dyn_cast'ing to DefinedElf, and both were easily
rewritten without it.
The class was also a bit confusing. The concept of "created for ELF
symbol" is orthogonal to defined/undefined types. However, we had
two distinct classes, DefinedElf and UndefinedElf.
This patch simply removes the class. Now the class hierarchy is one
level shallower.
llvm-svn: 265234
Some targets might require creation of thunks. For example, MIPS targets
require stubs to call PIC code from non-PIC one. The patch implements
infrastructure for thunk code creation and provides support for MIPS
LA25 stubs. Any MIPS PIC code function is invoked with its address
in register $t9. So if we have a branch instruction from non-PIC code
to the PIC one we cannot make the jump directly and need to create a small
stub to save the target function address.
See page 3-38 ftp://www.linux-mips.org/pub/linux/mips/doc/ABI/mipsabi.pdf
- In relocation scanning phase we ask target about thunk creation necessity
by calling `TagetInfo::needsThunk` method. The `InputSection` class
maintains list of Symbols requires thunk creation.
- Reassigning offsets performed for each input sections after relocation
scanning complete because position of each section might change due
thunk creation.
- The patch introduces new dedicated value for DefinedSynthetic symbols
DefinedSynthetic::SectionEnd. Synthetic symbol with that value always
points to the end of the corresponding output section. That allows to
escape updating synthetic symbols if output sections sizes changes after
relocation scanning due thunk creation.
- In the `InputSection::writeTo` method we write thunks after corresponding
input section. Each thunk is written by calling `TargetInfo::writeThunk` method.
- The patch supports the only type of thunk code for each target. For now,
it is enough.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17934
llvm-svn: 265059
Some optimizations, e.g. SimplifyLibCalls, can replace functions with
others as part of the lowering, e.g. printf => puts.
The new symbols don't have the isUsedInRegularObj flag set so they
don't get included in the final symbol table (and dynamic symbol
table), and the dynamic linker gets confused. Include them as a fix.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18357
llvm-svn: 264688
IPO doesn't work very well across symbols referenced
by others TUs. The linker here tries to evaluate
which symbols are safe to internalize and switches
their linkage.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18415
llvm-svn: 264585
We want to make SymbolBody the central place to query symbol information.
This patch also renames canBePreempted to isPreemptible because I feel that
the latter is slightly better (the former is three words and the latter
is two words.)
llvm-svn: 263386
We can argue about a maximum alignment of a group of symbols,
but for each symbol, there is only one alignment.
So it is a bit weird that each symbol has a "maximum alignment".
llvm-svn: 263151
It looks a bit wierd that we have to initialize symbols for all ELFT
types when we use only one ELFT for link. We can only init those
that we need. Patch fixes it.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18047
llvm-svn: 263133
Get rid of few accessors in that class, and replace
them with direct fields access.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17879
llvm-svn: 262796
SymbolBody constructor and friends take isFunc and isTLS boolean arguments.
ELF symbols have already a type so than be easily passed as argument.
If we want to support another type, this scheme is not good enough, that is,
the current code logic would require passing another `bool isObject` around.
Up to two argument, this stretching exercise was a little bit goofy but
still acceptable, but with more types to support, is just too much, IMHO.
Change the code so that the type is passed instead.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17871
llvm-svn: 262684
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E53394_01/html/E54766/u-etext-3c.html
It is said that:
_etext - The address of _etext is the first
location after the last read-only loadable segment.
_edata - The address of _edata is the first
location after the last read-write loadable segment.
_end - If the address of _edata is greater than the address
of _etext, the address of _end is same as the address of _edata.
In real life _end and _edata has different values for that case.
Both gold/bfd set _edata to the end of the last non SHT_NOBITS section.
This patch do the same for consistency.
It should fix the https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26729.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17601
llvm-svn: 262019
This patch implements the same algorithm as LLD/COFF's ICF. I'm
not going to repeat the same description about how it works, so you
want to read the comment in ICF.cpp in this patch if you want to know
the details. This algorithm should be more powerful than the ICF
algorithm implemented in GNU gold. It can even merge mutually-recursive
functions (which is harder than one might think).
ICF is a fairly effective size optimization. Here are some examples.
LLD: 37.14 MB -> 35.80 MB (-3.6%)
Clang: 59.41 MB -> 57.80 MB (-2.7%)
The lacking feature is "safe" version of ICF. This merges all
identical sections. That is not compatible with a C/C++ language
requirement that two distinct functions must have distinct addresses.
But as long as your program do not rely on the pointer equality
(which is in many cases true), your program should work with the
feature. LLD works fine for example.
GNU gold implements so-called "safe ICF" that identifies functions
that are safe to merge by heuristics -- for example, gold thinks
that constructors are safe to merge because there is no way to
take an address of a constructor in C++. We have a different idea
which David Majnemer suggested that we add NOPs at beginning of
merged functions so that two or more pointers can have distinct
values. We can do whichever we want, but this patch does not
include neither.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17529
llvm-svn: 261912
This is the function equivalent of a copy relocation.
Since functions are expected to change sizes, we cannot use copy
relocations. In situations where one would be needed, what is done
instead is:
* Create a plt entry
* Output an undefined symbol whose addr is the plt entry.
The dynamic linker makes sure any shared library uses the plt entry as
the function address.
llvm-svn: 260224
The variable was marking various cases where a symbol must be included
in the dynamic symbol table. Being used by a dynamic relocation was only
one of them.
llvm-svn: 259889
-Bsymbolic-functions:
When creating a shared library, bind references to global
function symbols to the definition within the shared library, if any.
This patch also fixed behavior of already existent -Bsymbolic:
previously PLT entries were created even if -Bsymbolic was specified.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D16411
llvm-svn: 259481
Previously, the methods to get symbol addresses were somewhat scattered
in many places. You can use getEntryAddr returns the address of the symbol,
but if you want to get the GOT address for the symbol, you needed to call
Out<ELFT>::Got->getEntryAddr(Sym). This change adds new functions, getVA,
getGotVA, getGotPltVA, and getPltVA to SymbolBody, so that you can use
SymbolBody as the central place to ask about symbols.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D16710
llvm-svn: 259404
Rafael Espindola