--compress-sections is similar to --compress-debug-sections but applies
to arbitrary sections.
* `--compress-sections <section>=none`: decompress sections
* `--compress-sections <section>=[zlib|zstd]`: compress sections with zlib/zstd
Like `--remove-section`, the pattern is by default a glob, but a regex
when --regex is specified.
For `--remove-section` like options, `!` prevents matches and is not
dependent on ordering (see `ELF/wildcard-syntax.test`). Since
`--compress-sections a=zlib --compress-sections a=none` naturally allows
overriding, having an order-independent `!` would be confusing.
Therefore, `!` is disallowed.
Sections within a segment are effectively immutable. Report an error for
an attempt to (de)compress them. `SHF_ALLOC` sections in a relocatable
file can be compressed, but linkers usually reject them.
Note: Before this patch, a compressed relocation section is recognized
as a `RelocationSectionBase` as well and `removeSections` `!ToRemove(*ToRelSec)`
may incorrectly interpret a `CompressedSections` as `RelocationSectionBase`,
leading to ubsan failure for the new test. Fix this by setting
`OriginalFlags` in CompressedSection::CompressedSection.
Link: https://discourse.llvm.org/t/rfc-compress-arbitrary-sections-with-ld-lld-compress-sections/71674
Pull Request: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/85036
07942987b5
