This patch adds a support for OUTPUT_FORMAT linker script directive.
Since I'm not 100% confident with BFD names you can use in the directive
for all architectures, I added only a few in this patch. We can add
other names for other archtiectures later.
We still do not support triple-style OUTPUT_FORMAT directive, namely,
OUTPUT_FORMAT(bfdname, big, little). If you pass -EL (little endian)
or -EB (big endian) to the linker, GNU linkers pick up big or little
as a BFD name, correspondingly, so that you can use a single linker
script for bi-endian processor. I'm not sure if we really need to
support that, so I'll leave it alone for now.
Note that -m takes precedence over OUTPUT_FORAMT, but we always parse
a BFD name given to OUTPUT_FORMAT for error checking. You cannot write
an invalid name in the OUTPUT_FORMAT directive.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53495
llvm-svn: 344952
GNU ld's manual says that TARGET(foo) is basically an alias for
`--format foo` where foo is a BFD target name such as elf64-x86-64.
Unlike GNU linkers, lld doesn't allow arbitrary BFD target name for
--format. We accept only "default", "elf" or "binary". This makes
situation a bit tricky because we can't simply make TARGET an alias for
--target.
A quick code search revealed that the usage number of TARGET is very
small, and the only meaningful usage is to switch to the binary mode.
Thus, in this patch, we handle only TARGET(elf.*) and TARGET(binary).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D48153
llvm-svn: 339060
This is PR36768.
Linker script OVERLAYs are described in 4.6.9. Overlay Description of the spec:
https://access.redhat.com/documentation/en-US/Red_Hat_Enterprise_Linux/4/html/Using_ld_the_GNU_Linker/sections.html
They are used to allow output sections which have different LMAs but the same VAs
and used for embedded programming.
Currently, LLD restricts overlapping of sections and that seems to be the most desired
behaviour for defaults. My thoughts about possible approaches for PR36768 are on the bug page,
this patch implements OVERLAY keyword and allows VAs overlapping for sections that within the overlay.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44780
llvm-svn: 335714
Currently, LLD supports ASSERT as a separate command.
We support two forms now.
Assign expression-form: . = ASSERT(0x100)
(old GNU ld required it and some scripts in the wild are still using
something like . = ASSERT((_end - _text <= (512 * 1024 * 1024)), "kernel image bigger than KERNEL_IMAGE_SIZE");
Nowadays above is not a mandatory form and command-like form is commonly used:
ASSERT(<expr>, "text);
The return value of the ASSERT is Dot. That was implemented in D30171.
It looks like (2) is just a short version of (1) then.
GNU ld does *not* list ASSERT as a SECTIONS command:
https://sourceware.org/binutils/docs/ld/SECTIONS.html#SECTIONS
Given above we probably can change ASSERT to be an assignment to Dot.
That makes the rest of the code much simpler. Patch do that.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45434
llvm-svn: 330814
I'm proposing a new command line flag, --warn-backrefs in this patch.
The flag and the feature proposed below don't exist in GNU linkers
nor the current lld.
--warn-backrefs is an option to detect reverse or cyclic dependencies
between static archives, and it can be used to keep your program
compatible with GNU linkers after you switch to lld. I'll explain the
feature and why you may find it useful below.
lld's symbol resolution semantics is more relaxed than traditional
Unix linkers. Therefore,
ld.lld foo.a bar.o
succeeds even if bar.o contains an undefined symbol that have to be
resolved by some object file in foo.a. Traditional Unix linkers
don't allow this kind of backward reference, as they visit each
file only once from left to right in the command line while
resolving all undefined symbol at the moment of visiting.
In the above case, since there's no undefined symbol when a linker
visits foo.a, no files are pulled out from foo.a, and because the
linker forgets about foo.a after visiting, it can't resolve
undefined symbols that could have been resolved otherwise.
That lld accepts more relaxed form means (besides it makes more
sense) that you can accidentally write a command line or a build
file that works only with lld, even if you have a plan to
distribute it to wider users who may be using GNU linkers. With
--check-library-dependency, you can detect a library order that
doesn't work with other Unix linkers.
The option is also useful to detect cyclic dependencies between
static archives. Again, lld accepts
ld.lld foo.a bar.a
even if foo.a and bar.a depend on each other. With --warn-backrefs
it is handled as an error.
Here is how the option works. We assign a group ID to each file. A
file with a smaller group ID can pull out object files from an
archive file with an equal or greater group ID. Otherwise, it is a
reverse dependency and an error.
A file outside --{start,end}-group gets a fresh ID when
instantiated. All files within the same --{start,end}-group get the
same group ID. E.g.
ld.lld A B --start-group C D --end-group E
A and B form group 0, C, D and their member object files form group
1, and E forms group 2. I think that you can see how this group
assignment rule simulates the traditional linker's semantics.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D45195
llvm-svn: 329636
Currently, LLD print symbol assignment commands to the map file,
but it does not do that for assignments that are outside of the section
descriptions. Such assignments can affect the layout though.
The patch implements the following:
* Teaches LLD to print symbol assignments outside of section declaration.
* Teaches LLD to print PROVIDE/HIDDEN/PROVIDE hidden commands.
In case when symbol is not provided, nothing will be printed.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44894
llvm-svn: 329272
Patch teaches LLD to print BYTE/SHORT/LONG/QUAD and
location move commands to the map file.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44004
llvm-svn: 327612
This finishes PR35877.
INSERT BEFORE used similar to INSERT AFTER,
it inserts sections before the given target section.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D44380
llvm-svn: 327378
AFTER keyword is mandatory and consume() was
used by mistake here. We accepted broken script before
this patch, testcase shows the issue.
llvm-svn: 327260
This implements INSERT AFTER in a following way:
During reading scripts it collects all insert statements.
After we done and read all files it inserts statements into script commands list.
With that:
* Rest of code does know nothing about INSERT.
* Approach is straightforward and have no visible limitations.
* It is also easy to support INSERT BEFORE (was seen in clang code once).
* Should work for PR35877 and similar cases.
Cons:
* It assumes we have "main" scripts that describes sections.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43468
llvm-svn: 327003
"division by zero" or "modulo by zero" are not
very informative errors and even probably confusing
as does not let to know that error is coming from linker script.
Patch adds location reporting.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43934
llvm-svn: 326686
LLD crashes with broken scripts shown in testcase,
because fails to read memory regon name and accesses
MemoryRegions's element which is nullptr.
Patch fixes it.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43866
llvm-svn: 326431
This is PR36515.
Currenly if we have a script like .debug_info 0 : { *(.debug_info) },
we would not remove this section and keep it in the output.
That does not work, because it is common case for
debug sections to have a zero address expression.
Patch changes behavior so that we remove only sections
that do not use symbols in its expressions.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D43863
llvm-svn: 326430
Rui Ueyama
George Rimar
Fangrui Song