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This patch changes sequence of applying relocations, moving tls optimized relocation handling code before code for other locals.
Without that change relocation @GOTTPOFF against local symbol caused runtime error ("unrecognized reloc ...").
That change also should fix other tls optimized relocations, but I did not check them, that's a field for another patch.
R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF relocations against locals can be found when linking against libc.a(malloc.o):
000000000036 000600000016 R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF 0000000000000000 libc_tsd_MALLOC - 4
000000000131 000600000016 R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF 0000000000000000 libc_tsd_MALLOC - 4
Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D15581
llvm-svn: 256145
The New ELF Linker
This directory contains a port of the new PE/COFF linker for ELF.
Overall Design
See COFF/README.md for details on the design. Note that unlike COFF, we do not distinguish chunks from input sections; they are merged together.
Capabilities
This linker can link LLVM and Clang on Linux/x86-64 or FreeBSD/x86-64 with -LLVM_ENABLE_THREADS=OFF. "Hello world" can be linked on Linux/PPC64.
Performance
Achieving good performance is one of our goals. It's too early to reach a conclusion, but we are optimistic about that as it currently seems to be faster than GNU gold. It will be interesting to compare when we are close to feature parity.