According to
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/Input-Section-Basics.html#Input-Section-Basics
for `*(.a .b)`, the order should match the input order:
* for `ld 1.o 2.o`, sections from 1.o precede sections from 2.o
* within a file, `.a` and `.b` appear in the section header table order
This patch implements the behavior. The interaction with `SORT*` and --sort-section is:
Matched sections are ordered by radix sort with the keys being `(SORT*, --sort-section, input order)`,
where `SORT*` (if present) is most significant.
> Note, multiple `SORT*` within an input section description has undocumented and
> confusing behaviors in GNU ld:
> https://sourceware.org/pipermail/binutils/2020-November/114083.html
> Therefore multiple `SORT*` is not the focus for this patch but
> this patch still strives to have an explainable behavior.
As an example, we partition `SORT(a.*) b.* c.* SORT(d.*)`, into
`SORT(a.*) | b.* c.* | SORT(d.*)` and perform sorting within groups. Sections
matched by patterns between two `SORT*` are sorted by input order. If
--sort-alignment is given, they are sorted by --sort-alignment, breaking tie by
input order.
This patch also allows a section to be matched by multiple patterns, previously
duplicated sections could occupy more space in the output and had erroneous zero bytes.
The patch is in preparation for support for
`*(SORT_BY_INIT_PRIORITY(.init_array.* .ctors.*)) *(.init_array .ctors)`,
which will allow LLD to mix .ctors*/.init_array* like GNU ld (gold's --ctors-in-init-array)
PR44698 and PR48096
Reviewed By: grimar, psmith
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91127
The second `SORT` in `*(SORT(...) SORT(...))` is incorrectly parsed as a file pattern.
Fix the bug by stopping at `SORT*` in `readInputSectionsList`.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D91180
Currently lld will implicitly reserve space for the headers. This is
not the case is bfd, where it is the script responsibility to use
SIZEOF_HEADERS. This means that a script not using SIZEOF_HEADERS and
expecting the address of the first section to be 0 would fail with lld.
I am fixing that is the next commit. This one just makes the tests
explicitly use SIZEOF_HEADERS to avoid the dependency on the current
behaviour.
llvm-svn: 282814
This is PR30442.
Previously we were failed to parce complex expressions like:
foo : { *(SORT_BY_NAME(bar) zed) }
Main idea of patch that globs and excludes can be wrapped in a SORT.
There is a difference in semanics of ld/gold:
ld likes:
*(SORT(EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) .foo.1))
gold likes:
*(EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) SORT(.foo.1))
Patch implements ld grammar, complex expressions like
next is not a problem anymore:
.abc : { *(SORT(.foo.* EXCLUDE_FILE (*file1.o) .bar.*) .bar.*) }
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D24758
llvm-svn: 282078
