Summary:
This is the result of the discussion in D55356, where it was suggested
as a solution to representing the addresses that logically belong to a
module in memory, but are not a part of any of its sections.
The ELF PT_LOAD segments are similar to the MachO "load commands",
except that the relationship between them and the object file sections
is a bit weaker. While in the MachO case, the sections belonging to a
specific segment are placed directly inside it in the object file
logical structur, in the ELF case, the sections and segments form two
separate hierarchies. This means that it is in theory possible to create
an elf file where only a part of a section would belong to some segment
(and another part to a different one). However, I am not aware of any
tool which would produce such a file (and most tools will have problems
ingesting them), so this means it is still possible to follow the MachO
model and make sections children of the PT_LOAD segments.
In case we run into (corrupt?) files with overlapping sections, I have
added code (and tests) which adjusts the sizes and/or drops the offending
sections in order to present a reasonable image to the upper layers of
LLDB. This is mostly done for completeness, as I don't anticipate
running into this situation in the real world. However, if we do run
into it, and the current behavior is not suitable for some reason, we
can implement this logic differently.
Reviewers: clayborg, jankratochvil, krytarowski, joerg, espindola
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, lldb-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55998
llvm-svn: 350742
Summary:
This patch attempts to move as much code as possible out of the
CreateSections function to make room for future improvements there. Some
of this may be slightly over-engineered (VMAddressProvider), but I
wanted to keep the logic of this function very simple, because once I
start taking segment headers into acount (as discussed in D55356), the
function is going to grow significantly.
While in there, I also added tests for various bits of functionality.
This should be NFC, except that I changed the order of hac^H^Heuristicks
for determining section type slightly. Previously, name-based deduction
(.symtab -> symtab) would take precedence over type-based (SHT_SYMTAB ->
symtab) one. In fact we would assert if we ran into a .text section with
type SHT_SYMTAB. Though unlikely to matter in practice, this order
seemed wrong to me, so I have inverted it.
Reviewers: clayborg, krytarowski, espindola
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, lldb-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55706
llvm-svn: 349268
Pavel Labath