The request is mentioned on D129053. I feel that having this functionality is
mildly useful (not strong).
* Rename .ctors to .init_array and change sh_type to SHT_INIT_ARRAY (GNU objcopy
detects the special name but we don't).
* Craft tests for a new SHT_LLVM_* extension
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D129337
clang 14 removed -gz=zlib-gnu support and ld.lld removed linker input support
for zlib-gnu in D126793. Now let's remove zlib-gnu from llvm-objcopy.
* .zdebug* sections are no longer recognized as debug sections. --strip* don't remove them.
They are copied like other opaque sections
* --decompress-debug-sections does not uncompress .zdebug* sections
* --compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu is not supported
It is very rare but in case a user has object files using .zdebug . They can use
llvm-objcopy<15 or GNU objcopy for uncompression.
--compress-debug-sections=zlib-gnu is unlikely ever used by anyone, so I do not
add a custom diagnostic.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D128688
I noticed that when --update-section was added to llvm-objcopy it was
not added to the command guide, see
25bcd94234. This change adds it to the
docs and updates the help text.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D122907
This is another attempt at D59351 which attempted to add --update-section, but
with some heuristics for adjusting segment/section offsets/sizes in the event
the data copied into the section is larger than the original size of the section.
We are opting to not support this case. GNU's objcopy was able to do this because
the linker and objcopy are tightly coupled enough that segment reformatting was
simpler. This is not the case with llvm-objcopy and lld where they like to be separated.
This will attempt to copy data into the section without changing any other
properties of the parent segment (if the section is part of one).
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D112116
This change is to keep the help text and command guide of objcopy in
tandem.
- In the help output the options --rename-section and
--set-section-flags were missing the flag exclude, which is found in
the command guide.
- In the command guide the alias -G for --keep-global-symbol was
missing, which is found in the help output.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D110340
The few options are niche. They solved a problem which was traditionally solved
with more shell commands (`llvm-readelf -n` fetches the Build ID. Then
`ln` is used to hard link the file to a directory derived from the Build ID.)
Due to limitation, they are no longer used by Fuchsia and they don't appear to
be used elsewhere (checked with Google Search and Debian Code Search). So delete
them without a transition period.
Announcement: https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2021-February/148446.html
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D96310
Fixes PR43181. This option was recently added to GNU objcopy (binutils
PR24942).
`llvm-objcopy -I binary -O elf64-x86-64 --set-section-alignment .data=8` can set the alignment of .data.
Reviewed By: grimar, jhenderson, rupprecht
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67656
llvm-svn: 373461
GNU objcopy documents that -B is only useful with architecture-less
input (i.e. "binary" or "ihex"). After D67144, -O defaults to -I, and
-B is essentially a NOP.
* If -O is binary/ihex, GNU objcopy ignores -B.
* If -O is elf*, -B provides the e_machine field in GNU objcopy.
So to convert a blob to an ELF, `-I binary -B i386:x86-64 -O elf64-x86-64` has to be specified.
`-I binary -B i386:x86-64 -O elf64-x86-64` creates an ELF with its
e_machine field set to EM_NONE in GNU objcopy, but a regular x86_64 ELF
in elftoolchain elfcopy. Follow the elftoolchain approach (ignoring -B)
to simplify code. Users that expect their command line portable should
specify -B.
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67215
llvm-svn: 371914
This implements the functionality described in
https://lld.llvm.org/Partitions.html. It works as follows:
- Reads the section headers using the ELF header at file offset 0;
- If extracting a loadable partition:
- Finds the section containing the required partition ELF header by looking it up in the section table;
- Reads the ELF and program headers from the section.
- If extracting the main partition:
- Reads the ELF and program headers from file offset 0.
- Filters the section table according to which sections are in the program headers that it read:
- If ParentSegment != nullptr or section is not SHF_ALLOC, then it goes in.
- Sections containing partition ELF headers or program headers are excluded as there are no headers for these in ordinary ELF files.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62364
llvm-svn: 362818
This patch adds support for --prefix-alloc-sections, which adds a prefix
to every allocated section names.
It adds a prefix after renaming section names by --rename-section as GNU
objcopy does.
Fixes PR41266: https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41266
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60042
Patch by Seiya Nuta.
llvm-svn: 360233
Summary:
llvm-{objcopy,strip} (and many other LLVM binary utilities) accept
cl::opt style -long-option as well as many short options (e.g. -p -S
-x). People who use them as replacement of GNU binutils often use the
grouped option syntax (POSIX Utility Conventions), e.g. -Sx => -S -x,
-Wd => -W -d, -sj.text => -s -j.text
There is ambiguity if a long option starts with the character used by a
short option. Drop the support for -long-option to resolve the ambiguity.
This divergence from other utilities is accepted (other utilities
continue supporting -long-option).
https://lists.llvm.org/pipermail/llvm-dev/2019-April/131786.html
Reviewers: alexshap, jakehehrlich, jhenderson, rupprecht, espindola
Reviewed By: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, rupprecht
Subscribers: grimar, emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60439
llvm-svn: 359265
llvm-objcopy currently emits an error if a section to be removed is
referenced by another section. This is a reasonable thing to do, but is
different to GNU objcopy. We should allow users who know what they are
doing to have a way to produce the invalid ELF. This change adds a new
switch --allow-broken-links to both llvm-strip and llvm-objcopy to do
precisely that. The corresponding sh_link field is then set to 0 instead
of an error being emitted.
I cannot use llvm-readelf/readobj to test the link fields because they
emit an error if any sections, like the .dynsym, cannot be properly
loaded.
Reviewed by: rupprecht, grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D60324
llvm-svn: 358649
For ELF, we accept but ignore --only-keep-debug. Do the same for llvm-strip.
COFF does implement this, so update the test that it is supported.
llvm-svn: 356207
This patch changes llvm-objcopy's behaviour to not strip sections that
are in segments, if they otherwise would be due to a stripping operation
(--strip-all, --strip-sections, --strip-non-alloc). This preserves the
segment contents. It does not change the behaviour of --strip-all-gnu
(although we could choose to do so), because GNU objcopy's behaviour in
this case seems to be to strip the section, nor does it prevent removing
of sections in segments with --remove-section (if a user REALLY wants to
remove a section, we should probably let them, although I could be
persuaded that warning might be appropriate). Tests have been added to
show this latter behaviour.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41006.
Reviewed by: grimar, rupprecht, jakehehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59293
This is a reland of r356129, attempting to fix greendragon failures
due to a suspected compatibility issue with od on the greendragon bots
versus other versions.
llvm-svn: 356136
This patch changes llvm-objcopy's behaviour to not strip sections that
are in segments, if they otherwise would be due to a stripping operation
(--strip-all, --strip-sections, --strip-non-alloc). This preserves the
segment contents. It does not change the behaviour of --strip-all-gnu
(although we could choose to do so), because GNU objcopy's behaviour in
this case seems to be to strip the section, nor does it prevent removing
of sections in segments with --remove-section (if a user REALLY wants to
remove a section, we should probably let them, although I could be
persuaded that warning might be appropriate). Tests have been added to
show this latter behaviour.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41006.
Reviewed by: grimar, rupprecht, jakehehrlich
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D59293
llvm-svn: 356129
Summary:
This adds support for the --discard-locals flag, which acts similarly to --discard-all, except it only applies to compiler-generated symbols (i.e. symbols starting with `.L` in ELF).
I am not sure about COFF local symbols: those appear to also use `.L` in most cases, but also use just `L` in other cases, so for now I am just leaving it unimplemented there.
Fixes PR36160
Reviewers: jhenderson, alexshap, jakehehrlich, mstorsjo, espindola
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste, arichardson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57248
llvm-svn: 352626
Summary:
--set-section-flags is used to change the section flags (e.g. SHF_ALLOC) for given sections. The flags allowed are the same from the existing --rename-section=.old=.new[,flags] feature.
Additionally, make sure that --set-section-flag cannot be used with --rename-section (either the source or destination), since --rename-section accepts flags. This avoids ambiguity for something like "--rename-section=.foo=.bar,alloc --set-section-flag=.bar,code".
Reviewers: jhenderson, jakehehrlich, alexshap, espindola
Reviewed By: jhenderson, jakehehrlich
Subscribers: llvm-commits, emaste, arichardson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57198
llvm-svn: 352505
This change adds an option -g to llvm-objcopy which is an alias for the existing option --strip-debug.
This fixes PR40003.
Reviewed by: alexshap
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D57217
llvm-svn: 352182
I just hard core goofed when I wrote this and created a different name
for no good reason. I'm failry aware of most "fresh" users of llvm-objcopy
(that is, users which are not using it as a drop in replacement for GNU
objcopy) and can say that only "-j" is being used by such people so this
patch should strictly increase compatibility and not remove it.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52180
llvm-svn: 348446
This flag does not exist in GNU objcopy but has a major use case.
Debugging tools support the .build-id directory structure to find
debug binaries. There is no easy way to build this structure up
however. One way to do it is by using llvm-readelf and some crazy
shell magic. This implements the feature directly. It is most often
the case that you'll want to strip a file and send the original to
the .build-id directory but if you just want to send a file to the
.build-id directory you can copy to /dev/null instead.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54384
llvm-svn: 348174
This allows libtool to detect the presence of llvm-strip and use
it with the options --strip-debug and --strip-unneeded.
Also hook up the -V alias for objcopy.
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54936
llvm-svn: 347731
Summary:
llvm-objcopy/strip support `--keep` (for sections) and `--keep-symbols` (for symbols). For consistency and clarity, rename `--keep` to `--keep-section`.
In fact, for GNU compatability, -K is --keep-symbol, so it's weird that the alias `-K` is not the same as the short-ish `--keep`.
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap, MaskRay, espindola
Reviewed By: jakehehrlich, MaskRay
Subscribers: emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D54477
llvm-svn: 346782
Summary: ar and objcopy/strip all support configuring whether archives are written deterministically (timestamps/UIDs/GIDs/etc zero'd). This has been ported to llvm-ar (the U/D modifiers) but not yet to llvm-objcopy/strip.
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Subscribers: ruiu, mgrang, llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53913
llvm-svn: 345859
Summary:
This change adds support for the GNU --target flag, which sets both --input-target and --output-target.
GNU objcopy doesn't do any checking for whether both --target and --{input,output}-target are used, and so it allows both, e.g. "--target A --output-target B" is equivalent to "--input-target A --output-target B" since the later command line flag would override earlier ones. This may be error prone, so I chose to implement it as an error if both are used. I'm not sure if anyone is actually using both.
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap
Reviewed By: jakehehrlich, alexshap
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D53029
llvm-svn: 344321
Summary: I had added support for compressing dwarf sections in a prior commit,
this one adds support for decompressing. Usage is:
llvm-objcopy --decompress-debug-sections input.o output.o
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, alexshap
Reviewed By: jhenderson
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D51841
llvm-svn: 343451
Summary:
Implement --version for objcopy and strip.
I think there are LLVM utilities that automatically handle this, but that doesn't seem to work with custom parsing since this binary handles both objcopy and strip, so it uses custom parsing.
This fixes PR38298
Reviewers: jhenderson, alexshap, jakehehrlich
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52328
llvm-svn: 342702
This diff adds -S as an alias for --strip-all-gnu
(for compatibility with binutils' objcopy).
Patch by Dmitry Golovin!
Test plan: make check-all
Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D52163
llvm-svn: 342364
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