COMDAT_SELECT_LARGEST is a COMDAT type that make linker to choose the largest
definition from among all of the definition of a symbol. If the size is the
same, the choice is arbitrary.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3011
llvm-svn: 204172
The COFF spec says that the SectionNumber field in the symbol table is 16 bit
signed type, but MSVC treats the field as if it is unsigned.
llvm-svn: 203901
This results in some simplifications to the code where an OwningPtr had to
be used with the previous api and then ownership moved to a unique_ptr for
the rest of lld.
llvm-svn: 203809
An object whose machine type header value is unknown looks a bit odd but
is valid. If an object contains only machine-type-independent data, you
can leave the type field unspecified. Some files in oldname.lib are such
object files.
llvm-svn: 203752
Summary:
COMDAT_SELECT_SAME_SIZE is a COMDAT type that I presume exist only in COFF.
The semantics of the type is that linker should merge such COMDAT sections if
their sizes are the same. Otherwise it's an error.
Reviewers: Bigcheese, shankarke, kledzik
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D2996
llvm-svn: 203308
Just like x86 exception handler table, the table for x64 needs to be sorted
so that runtime can binary search on it. Unlike x86, the table entry for x64
has multiple fields, and they need to be sorted according to its BeginAddress
field. This patch also fixes a bug in relocations.
llvm-svn: 202874
It looks like the contents of the table need to be sorted according to its
value, so that the runtime can find the entry by binary search. I'm not 100%
sure if we really have to do that, but at least I can say it's safe to do
because the contents of .sxdata is just a list of exception handlers' RVAs.
llvm-svn: 202550
If all input files are compatible with Structured Exception Handling, linker
is supposed to create an exectuable with a table for SEH handlers. The table
consists of exception handlers entry point addresses.
The basic idea of SEH in x86 Microsoft ABI is to list all valid entry points
of exception handlers in an read-only memory, so that an attacker cannot
override the addresses in it. In x86 ABI, data for exception handling is mostly
on stack, so it's volnerable to stack overflow attack. In order to protect
against it, Windows runtime uses the table to check a return address, to
ensure that the address is really an valid entry point for an exception handler.
Compiler emits a list of exception handler functions to .sxdata section. It
also emits a marker symbol "@feat.00" to indicate that the object is compatible
with SEH. SEH is a relatively new feature for COFF, and mixing SEH-compatible
and SEH-incompatible objects will result in an invalid executable, so is the
marker.
If all input files are compatible with SEH, LLD emits a SEH table. SEH table
needs to be pointed by Load Configuration strucutre, so when emitting a SEH
table LLD emits it too. The address of a Load Configuration will be stored to
the file header.
llvm-svn: 202248
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
Currently LLD always print a warning message if the same symbol is specified
more than once for /export option. It's a bit annoying because specifying the
same symbol with compatible options is actually safe and considered as a
normal use case. This patch makes LLD to warn only when incompatible export
options are given.
llvm-svn: 198104
Each export symbol descriptor has unique name attribute, so std::set is
better container than std::vector for it. No functionality change.
llvm-svn: 198102