This has a few advantages
* Less C++ code (about 300 lines less).
* Less machine code (about 14 KB of text on a linux x86_64 build).
* It is more debugger friendly. Just set a breakpoint on the exit function and
you get the complete lld stack trace of when the error was found.
* It is a more robust API. The errors are handled early and we don't get a
std::error_code hot potato being passed around.
* In most cases the error function in a better position to print diagnostics
(it has more context).
llvm-svn: 244215
This is a direct port of the new PE/COFF linker to ELF.
It can take a single object file and generate a valid executable that executes at the first byte in the text section.
llvm-svn: 242088
This is an initial patch for a section-based COFF linker.
The patch has 2300 lines of code including comments and blank lines.
Before diving into details, you want to start from reading README
because it should give you an overview of the design.
All important things are written in the README file, so I write
summary here.
- The linker is already able to self-link on Windows.
- It's significantly faster than the existing implementation.
The existing one takes 5 seconds to link LLD on my machine,
while the new one only takes 1.2 seconds, even though the new
one is not multi-threaded yet. (And a proof-of-concept multi-
threaded version was able to link it in 0.5 seconds.)
- It uses much less memory (250MB vs. 2GB virtual memory space
to self-host).
- IMHO the new code is much simpler and easier to read than
the existing PE/COFF port.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D10036
llvm-svn: 238458
Summary: Add support in the universal driver to print the lld version and the
repository version.
Test Plan: A driver test is added
Reviewers: kledzik, ruiu
Reviewed By: ruiu
Subscribers: llvm-commits
Projects: #lld
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5641
llvm-svn: 219277
The existing system linkers on Darwin and Linux are called "ld". We'd like to
eventually drop in lld as "ld" and have it just work. But lld is a universal
linker that requires the first option to be -flavor to know which command line
mode to emulate (gnu or darwin).
This change tests if argv[0] is "ld" and if so, if the tool was built on MacOSX
then assume the darwin flavor otherwise the gnu flavor. There are two test
cases which copy lld to "ld" and then run it. One for darwin and one for linux.
llvm-svn: 217566
This patch inverts the return value of these functions, so that they return
"true" on success and "false" on failure. The meaning of boolean return value
was mixed in LLD; for example, InputGraph::validate() returns true on success.
With this patch they'll become consistent.
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1748
llvm-svn: 191341
Add WinLinkDriver and connect it to the existing COFF reader. Remaining
parts are still stubs, so while it can now read a COFF file, it still
cannot link or output PE/COFF files yet.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D865
llvm-svn: 182784
The major changes are:
1) LinkerOptions has been merged into TargetInfo
2) LinkerInvocation has been merged into Driver
3) Drivers no longer convert arguments into an intermediate (core) argument
list, but instead create a TargetInfo object and call setter methods on
it. This is only how in-process linking would work. That is, you can
programmatically set up a TargetInfo object which controls the linking.
4) Lots of tweaks to test suite to work with driver changes
5) Add the DarwinDriver
6) I heavily doxygen commented TargetInfo.h
Things to do after this patch is committed:
a) Consider renaming TargetInfo, given its new roll.
b) Consider pulling the list of input files out of TargetInfo. This will
enable in-process clients to create one TargetInfo the re-use it with
different input file lists.
c) Work out a way for Drivers to format the warnings and error done in
core linking.
llvm-svn: 178776
Rafael Espindola