LTO: introduce object file-based on-disk module format.

This format is simply a regular object file with the bitcode stored in a
section named ".llvmbc", plus any number of other (non-allocated) sections.

One immediate use case for this is to accommodate compilation processes
which expect the object file to contain metadata in non-allocated sections,
such as the ".go_export" section used by some Go compilers [1], although I
imagine that in the future we could consider compiling parts of the module
(such as large non-inlinable functions) directly into the object file to
improve LTO efficiency.

[1] http://golang.org/doc/install/gccgo#Imports

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D4371

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@218078 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
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Peter Collingbourne
2014-09-18 21:28:49 +00:00
parent 65edced76b
commit 394be6c159
15 changed files with 178 additions and 25 deletions

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@@ -149,6 +149,9 @@ cl::list<std::string> SegSect("s", cl::Positional, cl::ZeroOrMore,
cl::opt<bool> FormatMachOasHex("x", cl::desc("Print symbol entry in hex, "
"Mach-O only"));
cl::opt<bool> NoLLVMBitcode("no-llvm-bc",
cl::desc("Disable LLVM bitcode reader"));
bool PrintAddress = true;
bool MultipleFiles = false;
@@ -1009,8 +1012,8 @@ static void dumpSymbolNamesFromFile(std::string &Filename) {
return;
LLVMContext &Context = getGlobalContext();
ErrorOr<std::unique_ptr<Binary>> BinaryOrErr =
createBinary(BufferOrErr.get()->getMemBufferRef(), &Context);
ErrorOr<std::unique_ptr<Binary>> BinaryOrErr = createBinary(
BufferOrErr.get()->getMemBufferRef(), NoLLVMBitcode ? nullptr : &Context);
if (error(BinaryOrErr.getError(), Filename))
return;
Binary &Bin = *BinaryOrErr.get();