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
For now just treat such sections as non-mergeable.
Resubmit r263660 with test fix.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18225
llvm-svn: 263664
which was reverted because included
unrelative changes by mistake.
Original commit message:
[ELF] - Change all messages to lowercase to be consistent.
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263337
That is directly opposite to http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045,
which was reverted.
This patch changes all messages to start from lowercase letter if
they were not before.
That is done to be consistent with clang.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18085
llvm-svn: 263252
In lld we usually avoid hash lookups. In addition to that, IR names are
not fully mangled, so it is best to avoid using them whenever possible.
llvm-svn: 263248
It was discussed to make all messages be
lowercase to be consistent with clang.
(also reverts the r263128 which fixed
build bot fail after r263125)
Original commit message:
[ELF] - Consistent spelling for error/warning messages
Previously error and warnings were not consistent in lld.
Some of them started from lowercase letter, others from
uppercase. Also there was one or two which had a dot at the end.
This patch changes all messages to start from uppercase letter if
they were not before.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045
llvm-svn: 263240
Summary:
More generally, appending linkage is a special case that we don't want
to create a SymbolBody for.
Reviewers: rafael, ruiu
Subscribers: Bigcheese, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18012
llvm-svn: 263179
Previously error and warnings were not consistent in lld.
Some of them started from lowercase letter, others from
uppercase. Also there was one or two which had a dot at the end.
This patch changes all messages to start from uppercase letter if
they were not before.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D18045
llvm-svn: 263125
Each object file compiled in split stack mode will have an empty
section with a special name: .note.GNU-split-stack
We don't support this in linker now, so patch just adds an error out for that.
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17918
llvm-svn: 263039
Summary:
Is there any other code needed for correctly handling appending linkage?
Do we need to do something more with @llvm.global_ctors in
SymbolTable.cpp:addBitcodeFile; otherwise the combined bitcode module
won't have all the global ctors.
Reviewers: rafael
Subscribers: Bigcheese, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17975
llvm-svn: 262992
Summary:
This causes the issue in PR26872 to go away now that we aren't creating
symbols for the string literals, but that may just be concealing a
deeper problem, so best to keep that PR open.
Reviewers: rafael
Subscribers: Bigcheese, llvm-commits, joker.eph
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17971
llvm-svn: 262968
There was a known limitation for -r option:
relocations against local symbols were not supported.
For example rel[a].eh_frame sections contained relocations against sections
and that was not supported for -r before. Patch fixes that.
Differential review: http://reviews.llvm.org/D17813
llvm-svn: 262590
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
-r, -relocatable - Generate relocatable output
Currently does not have support for files containing
relocation sections with entries that refer to local
symbols (like rel[a].eh_frame which refer to sections
and not to symbols)
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14382
llvm-svn: 261838
"Discarded" section is a marker for discarded sections, and we do not
use the instance except for checking its identity. In that sense, it
is just another type of a "null" pointer for InputSectionBase. So,
it doesn't have to be a real instance of InputSectionBase class.
In this patch, we no longer instantiate Discarded section but instead
use -1 as a pointer value. This eliminates a global variable which
needed initialization at startup.
llvm-svn: 261761
This patch moves BitcodeFile instantiation into createObjectFile.
Previously, we handle bitcode files outside that function and did
not handle for --whole-archive.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D17527
llvm-svn: 261663
