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Commit f525c928 authored by George Rimar's avatar George Rimar
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[ELF] - Implement filter library support (-F / --filter)

This is PR33766.

-F name
--filter=name
When creating an ELF shared object, set the internal DT_FILTER field to the specified name. This tells the dynamic linker that the symbol table of the shared object which is being created should be used as a filter on the symbol table of the shared object name.

If you later link a program against this filter object, then, when you run the program, the dynamic linker will see the DT_FILTER field. The dynamic linker will resolve symbols according to the symbol table of the filter object as usual, but it will actually link to the definitions found in the shared object name. Thus the filter object can be used to select a subset of the symbols provided by the object name.
(https://linux.die.net/man/1/ld).

Shared Objects as Filters:
https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19683-01/817-3677/chapter4-31738/index.html

Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D35352

llvm-svn: 308167
parent 7ac3efac
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