2 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Chandler Carruth
15db81893f [gold] Consolidate the gold plugin options and actually search for
a gold binary explicitly. Substitute this binary into the tests rather
than just directly executing the 'ld' binary.

This should allow folks to inject a cross compiling gold binary, or in
my case to use a gold binary built and installed somewhere other than
/usr/bin/ld. It should also allow the tests to find 'ld.gold' so that
things work even if gold isn't the default on the system.

I've only stubbed out support in the makefile to preserve the existing
behavior with none of the fancy logic. If someone else wants to add
logic here, they're welcome to do so.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@229251 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2015-02-14 09:43:57 +00:00
Rafael Espindola
03d2823e02 Add support for comdats to the gold plugin.
There are two parts to this. First, the plugin needs to tell gold the comdat by
setting comdat_key.

What gets things a bit more complicated is that gold only seems
symbols. In particular, if A is an alias to B, it only sees the symbols
A and B. It can then ask us to keep symbol A but drop symbol B. What
we have to do instead is to create an internal version of B and make A
an alias to that.

At some point some of this logic should be moved to lib/Linker so that
we don't map a Constant to an internal version just to have lib/Linker
map that again to the destination module.

The reason for implementing this in tools/gold for now is simplicity.
With it in place it should be possible to update clang to use comdats
for constructors and destructors on ELF without breaking the LTO
bootstrap. Once that is done I intend to come back and improve the
interface lib/Linker exposes.

git-svn-id: https://llvm.org/svn/llvm-project/llvm/trunk@216302 91177308-0d34-0410-b5e6-96231b3b80d8
2014-08-22 23:26:10 +00:00