Linkers (ld.bfd/gold/lld) place the section header table at the very
end. This allows tools to strip it, which is optional in executable/shared objects.
In addition, if we add or section, the size of the section header table
will change. Placing the section header table in the end keeps section
offsets unchanged.
yaml2obj currently places the section header table immediately after the
program header. Follow what linkers do to make offset updating easier.
Reviewed By: grimar
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D67221
llvm-svn: 371074
Summary:
When llvm-objcopy sorts sections during finalization, it only sorts based on the offset, which can cause the group section to come after the sections it contains. This causes link failures when using gold to link objects created by llvm-objcopy.
Fix this for now by copying GNU objcopy's behavior of placing SHT_GROUP sections first. In the future, we may want to remove this sorting entirely to more closely preserve the input file layout.
This fixes https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=42052.
Reviewers: jakehehrlich, jhenderson, MaskRay, espindola, alexshap
Reviewed By: MaskRay
Subscribers: phuongtrang148993, emaste, arichardson, llvm-commits
Tags: #llvm
Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D62620
llvm-svn: 362973
Fangrui Song