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Commit 473aa408 authored by Rui Ueyama's avatar Rui Ueyama
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COFF: Add a test for ICF and circular references.

ICF is a feature to merge sections not by name (which is the regular
COMDAT merging) but by contents. If two or more sections have the
identical contents and relocations, ICF merges them to save space.
Accessors or templated functions tend to have the same contents, and
ICF can hold them.

If we consider sections as vertices and relocations as edges, the
problem is to find as many isomorphic graphs as possile from input
graphs. MSVC linker is smart enough to identify isomorphic graphs
even if they contain circles (GNU gold cannot handle circles
according to http://research.google.com/pubs/pub36912.html, so this
is impressive).

Circular references are not uncommon in COFF object files.
One example is .pdata. .pdata sections contain exception handler info
for functions, so they naturally have relocations for the functions.
The functions in turn have references to the .pdata sections so that
the functions and their .pdata are linked together. As a result, they
form circles.

This is a test case for circular graphs. LLD is not able to handle
this test case yet. I'll add code soon.

llvm-svn: 245827
parent 28103266
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