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Commit b216c80c authored by Fangrui Song's avatar Fangrui Song
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[ELF] Allow SHF_LINK_ORDER sections to have sh_link=0

Part of https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=41734

The semantics of SHF_LINK_ORDER have been extended to represent metadata
sections associated with some other sections (usually text).

The associated text section may be discarded (e.g. LTO) and we want the
metadata section to have sh_link=0 (D72899, D76802).

Normally the metadata section is only referenced by the associated text
section. sh_link=0 means the associated text section is discarded, and
the metadata section will be garbage collected. If there is another
section (.gc_root) referencing the metadata section, the metadata
section will be retained. It's the .gc_root consumer's job to validate
the metadata sections.

  # This creates a SHF_LINK_ORDER .meta with sh_link=0
  .section .meta,"awo",@progbits,0
  1:
  .section .meta,"awo",@progbits,foo
  2:

  .section .gc_root,"a",@progbits
  .quad 1b
  .quad 2b

Reviewed By: pcc, jhenderson

Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D72904
parent 1adc494b
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