gecko/build/unix/elfhack
Mike Hommey 21ec48314e Bug 1077148 part 4 - Add and use new moz.build templates for Gecko programs and libraries. r=gps
There are, sadly, many combinations of linkage in use throughout the tree.
The main differentiator, though, is between program/libraries related to
Gecko or not. Kind of. Some need mozglue, some don't. Some need dependent
linkage, some standalone.

Anyways, these new templates remove the need to manually define the
right dependencies against xpcomglue, nspr, mozalloc and mozglue
in most cases.

Places that build programs and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_PROGRAM_LDFLAGS
or that build libraries and were resetting MOZ_GLUE_LDFLAGS can now
just not use those Gecko-specific templates.
2014-10-30 13:06:12 +09:00
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inject Bug 1001320. Part 5: Use #pragma GCC visibility on B2G. r=glandium 2014-05-11 23:37:14 -07:00
dummy.c
elf.cpp
elfhack.cpp
elfxx.h
inject.c
Makefile.in Bug 1077148 part 4 - Add and use new moz.build templates for Gecko programs and libraries. r=gps 2014-10-30 13:06:12 +09:00
moz.build Bug 1041941 - Use templates for programs, simple programs, libraries and C++ unit tests. r=gps 2014-09-03 14:10:54 +09:00
README
test-array.c
test-ctors.c
test.c

Elfhack is a program to optimize ELF binaries for size and cold startup
speed.

Presently, it is quite experimental, though it works well for the target
it was created for: Firefox's libxul.so.

Elfhack currently only does one thing: packing dynamic relocations ;
which ends up being a quite complex task, that can be summarized this
way:
- Remove RELATIVE relocations from the .rel.dyn/.rela.dyn section.
- Inject a small code able to apply relative relocations "by hand"
  after the .rel.dyn/.rela.dyn section.
- Inject a section containing relocative relocations in a different
  and more packed format, after the small code.
- Register the small code as DT_INIT function. Make the small code call
  what was initially the DT_INIT function, if there was one.
- Remove the hole between the new section containing relative
  relocations and the following sections, adjusting offsets and base
  addresses accordingly.
- Adjust PT_LOAD entries to fit new offsets, and add an additional
  PT_LOAD entry when that is necessary to handle the discrepancy between
  offsets and base addresses, meaning the section offsets may yet again
  need adjustments.
- Adjust various DT_* dynamic tags to fit the new ELF layout.
- Adjust section headers.
- Adjust ELF headers.

See http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177#relocations for some figures.