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Commit c6ae7eaa authored by Pavel Labath's avatar Pavel Labath
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Correctly resolve symbol names containing linker annotations

Summary:
Symbols in ELF files can be versioned, but LLDB currently does not understand these. This problem
becomes apparent once one loads glibc with debug info. Here (in the .symtab section) the versions
are embedded in the name (name@VERSION), which causes issues when evaluating expressions
referencing memcpy for example (current glibc contains memcpy@@GLIBC_2.14 and
memcpy@GLIBC_2.2.5).

This problem was not evident without debug symbols as the .dynsym section
stores the bare names and the actual versions are present in a separate section (.gnu.version_d),
which LLDB ignores. This resulted in two definitions of memcpy in the symbol table.

This patch adds support for storing annotated names to the Symbol class. If
Symbol.m_contains_linker_annotations is true then this symbol is annotated. Unannotated name can
be obtained by calling StripLinkerAnnotations on the corresponding ObjectFile. ObjectFileELF
implements this to strip @VERSION suffixes when requested. Symtab uses this function to add the
bare name as well as the annotated name to the name lookup table.

To preserve the size of the Symbol class, I had to steal one bit from the m_type field.

Test Plan:
This fixes TestExprHelpExamples.py when run with a glibc with debug symbols. Writing
an environment agnostic test case would require building a custom shared library with symbol
versions and testing symbol resolution against that, which is somewhat challenging.

Reviewers: clayborg, jingham

Subscribers: lldb-commits

Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D8036

llvm-svn: 231228
parent aea84618
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