With OutputSection being a virtual interface, each concrete OutputSection
handles only one type of chunk and we don't need a base Chunk class.
So for we have a class that handles input sections and one that handles
the string table, but this extends naturally for other outputs (symbol table,
merging of SHF_MERGE sections, etc.).
llvm-svn: 244972
We were creating the string table in a completely ad hoc way. Now the
string table is an output section and gets its output offset set just like
any other section.
This opens the way for other linker created sections like the symbol table.
llvm-svn: 244969
This is a bit more c++ code, but:
* It is less machine code: lld's text is 44688 bytes smaller.
* It should be a bit more efficient in the non native endian case.
* It should be a bit more efficient on architectures with slow unaligned access.
llvm-svn: 244934
Various parameters are passed implicitly using Config global variable
already. Output file path is no different from others, so there was no
special reason to handle that differnetly.
This patch changes the signature of writeResult(SymbolTable *, StringRef)
to writeResult(SymbolTable *).
llvm-svn: 244180
We are using Writer more like a function instead of a class.
This patch makes it a function to simplify the interface.
All details of Writer class is now hidden from other parts of the linker.
llvm-svn: 244169
The others we have in sight are
* common symbols.
* entries in SHF_MERGE sections.
They will have a substantially different treatment. It is not clear if it is
worth it putting them all in a single list just to dispatch based on the kind on
the other side.
I hope to implement common symbols soon, and then we will be in a position
to have a concrete discussion. For now this is simpler for the the implemented
features.
llvm-svn: 244042
When we were using a std::sort over all the chunks we needed to put them in a
single storage.
Now that we just iterate over them and use a map to find the output section,
we can avoid allocating the temporary storage.
llvm-svn: 243980
This is a direct port of the new PE/COFF linker to ELF.
It can take a single object file and generate a valid executable that executes at the first byte in the text section.
llvm-svn: 242088
Rafael Espindola