The main changes are in:
include/lld/Core/Reference.h
include/lld/ReaderWriter/Reader.h
Everything else is details to support the main change.
1) Registration based Readers
Previously, lld had a tangled interdependency with all the Readers. It would
have been impossible to make a streamlined linker (say for a JIT) which
just supported one file format and one architecture (no yaml, no archives, etc).
The old model also required a LinkingContext to read an object file, which
would have made .o inspection tools awkward.
The new model is that there is a global Registry object. You programmatically
register the Readers you want with the registry object. Whenever you need to
read/parse a file, you ask the registry to do it, and the registry tries each
registered reader.
For ease of use with the existing lld code base, there is one Registry
object inside the LinkingContext object.
2) Changing kind value to be a tuple
Beside Readers, the registry also keeps track of the mapping for Reference
Kind values to and from strings. Along with that, this patch also fixes
an ambiguity with the previous Reference::Kind values. The problem was that
we wanted to reuse existing relocation type values as Reference::Kind values.
But then how can the YAML write know how to convert a value to a string? The
fix is to change the 32-bit Reference::Kind into a tuple with an 8-bit namespace
(e.g. ELF, COFFF, etc), an 8-bit architecture (e.g. x86_64, PowerPC, etc), and
a 16-bit value. This tuple system allows conversion to and from strings with
no ambiguities.
llvm-svn: 197727
YAML files tend to be very large compared to binary formats because of ASCII
format inefficiency. And the YAML reader consumes an excessively large amount
of memory when parsing a large file. It's very slow too.
For example, I observed that 6MB executable became 120MB YAML file, and the
YAML reader consumed more than 1.5GB memory to load it. The YAML reader even
caused OOM error on 32 bit, causing the entire process to fail.
This patch sets the limit on the YAML file size the linker will try to load in
the RoundTripYAML test as a safeguard.
llvm-svn: 194666
Enable this for the following flavors
a) core
b) gnu
c) darwin
Its disabled for the flavor PECOFF. Convenient markers are added with FIXME
comments in the Driver that would be removed and code removed from each flavor.
llvm-svn: 193585
Disable tests to be run with REQUIRES: disable. Note disable is not added to the
config by the test runner Mkaefiles, so essentially disables the test.
Code changes would be required to fix these tests :-
test/darwin/hello-world.objtxt
test/elf/check.test
test/elf/phdr.test
test/elf/ppc.test
test/elf/undef-from-main-dso.test
test/elf/X86_64/note-sections-ro_plus_rw.test
test/pecoff/alignment.test
test/pecoff/base-reloc.test
test/pecoff/bss-section.test
test/pecoff/drectve.test
test/pecoff/dynamic.test
test/pecoff/dynamicbase.test
test/pecoff/entry.test
test/pecoff/hello.test
test/pecoff/imagebase.test
test/pecoff/importlib.test
test/pecoff/lib.test
test/pecoff/multi.test
test/pecoff/reloc.test
test/pecoff/weak-external.test
llvm-svn: 193300
Rui Ueyama