This was discussed in D93678 thread.
Currently we have one special chunk - Fill.
This patch re implements the "SectionHeaderTable" key to become a special chunk too.
With that we are able to place the section header table at any location,
just like we place sections.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D95140
This is recommit for D90903 with fixes for BB:
1) Used std::move<> when returning Expected<> (http://lab.llvm.org:8011/#/builders/112/builds/913)
2) Fixed the name of temporarily file in the file-headers.test (http://lab.llvm.org:8011/#/builders/36/builds/1269)
(a local old temporarily file was used before)
For creating `ELFObjectFile` instances we have the factory method
`ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::create(MemoryBufferRef Object)`.
The problem of this method is that it scans the section header to locate some sections.
When a file is truncated or has broken fields in the ELF header, this approach does
not allow us to create the `ELFObjectFile` and dump the ELF header.
This is https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40804
This patch suggests a solution - it allows to delay scaning sections in the
`ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::create`. It now allows user code to call an object
initialization (`initContent()`) later. With that it is possible,
for example, for dumpers just to dump the file header and exit.
By default initialization is still performed as before, what helps to keep
the logic of existent callers untouched.
I've experimented with different approaches when worked on this patch.
I think this approach is better than doing initialization of sections (i.e. scan of them)
on demand, because normally users of `ELFObjectFile` API expect to work with a valid object.
In most cases when a section header table can't be read (because of an error), we don't
have to continue to work with object. So we probably don't need to implement a more complex API.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90903
For creating `ELFObjectFile` instances we have the factory method
`ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::create(MemoryBufferRef Object)`.
The problem of this method is that it scans the section header to locate some sections.
When a file is truncated or has broken fields in the ELF header, this approach does
not allow us to create the `ELFObjectFile` and dump the ELF header.
This is https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=40804
This patch suggests a solution - it allows to delay scaning sections in the
`ELFObjectFile<ELFT>::create`. It now allows user code to call an object
initialization (`initContent()`) later. With that it is possible,
for example, for dumpers just to dump the file header and exit.
By default initialization is still performed as before, what helps to keep
the logic of existent callers untouched.
I've experimented with different approaches when worked on this patch.
I think this approach is better than doing initialization of sections (i.e. scan of them)
on demand, because normally users of `ELFObjectFile` API expect to work with a valid object.
In most cases when a section header table can't be read (because of an error), we don't
have to continue to work with object. So we probably don't need to implement a more complex API.
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D90903
Follow-up for D74433
What the function returns are almost standard BFD names, except that "ELF" is
in uppercase instead of lowercase.
This patch changes "ELF" to "elf" and changes ARM/AArch64 to use their BFD names.
MIPS and PPC64 have endianness differences as well, but this patch does not intend to address them.
Advantages:
* llvm-objdump: the "file format " line matches GNU objdump on ARM/AArch64 objects
* "file format " line can be extracted and fed into llvm-objcopy -O literally.
(https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/779 has such a use case)
Affected tools: llvm-readobj, llvm-objdump, llvm-dwarfdump, MCJIT (internal implementation detail, not exposed)
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D76046
This creates the next subfolders in the test directory:
"COFF", "ELF", "MachO", "wasm".
I've also removed platform specific prefixes, like "coff-*".
One unused binary was removed as well: `Inputs/relocs.obj.elf-mips`
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D71203
Georgii Rymar