[LLD][ELF] - A fix for "linker script assignment loses relative nature of section" bug.
This is https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=39857. I added the comment with much more details to the bug page, the short version is below. The following script and code demonstrates the issue: aliasto__text = __text; SECTIONS { .text 0x1000 : { __text = . ; *(.text) } } ... call aliasto__text LLD fails with "cannot refer to absolute symbol: aliasto__text" error. It happens because at the moment of scanning the relocations we do not yet assign the correct/final/any section value for the symbol aliasto__text. I made a change to Relocations.cpp to fix that. Also, I had to remove the symbol-location.s test case completely, because now it does not trigger any error. Since now all linker scripts symbols are resolved to constants, no errors can be triggered at all it seems. I checked that it is consistent with the behavior of bfd and gold (they do not trigger errors for the case from symbol-location.s), so it should be OK. I.e. at least it is probably not the best possible, but natural behavior we obtained. Differential revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D55423 llvm-svn: 358652
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