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Commit efb7e1aa authored by Rui Ueyama's avatar Rui Ueyama
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COFF: Fix a common symbol bug.

This is a case that one mistake caused a very mysterious bug.
I made a mistake to calculate addresses of common symbols, so
each common symbol pointed not to the beginning of its location
but to the end of its location. (Ouch!)

Common symbols are aligned on 16 byte boundaries. If a common
symbol is small enough to fit between the end of its real
location and whatever comes next, this bug didn't cause any harm.

However, if a common symbol is larger than that, its memory
naturally overlapped with other symbols. That means some
uninitialized variables accidentally shared memory. Because
totally unrelated memory writes mutated other varaibles, it was
hard to debug.

It's surprising that LLD was able to link itself and all LLD
tests except gunit tests passed with this nasty bug.

With this fix, the new COFF linker is able to pass all tests
for LLVM, Clang and LLD if I use MSVC cl.exe as a compiler.
Only three tests are failing when used with clang-cl.

llvm-svn: 240216
parent 4c548f2d
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