llvm-svn: 238719

Instead of returning non-categorized errors, return categorized errors.
All uses of make_dynamic_error_code are removed.

Because we don't have error reporting mechanism, I just chose to print out
error messages to stderr, and then return an error object. Not sure if
that's the right thing to do, but at least it seems practical.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D10129

llvm-svn: 238714

Currently we set the field to zero, but as per the spec, we should
set numbers we read from import library files. The loader uses the
values as starting offsets for binary search when looking up imported
symbols from DLL.

llvm-svn: 238562

llvm-svn: 238474

Previously Writer directly handles writes to a file.
Chunks needed to give Writer a continuous chunk of memory.
That was inefficent if you construct data in chunks because
it would require two memory copies (one to construct a chunk
and the other is to write that to a file).

This patch teaches chunk to write directly to a file.
From readability point of view, this is also good because
you no longer have to call hasData() before calling getData().

llvm-svn: 238464

This is an initial patch for a section-based COFF linker.

The patch has 2300 lines of code including comments and blank lines.
Before diving into details, you want to start from reading README
because it should give you an overview of the design.

All important things are written in the README file, so I write
summary here.

- The linker is already able to self-link on Windows.

- It's significantly faster than the existing implementation.
  The existing one takes 5 seconds to link LLD on my machine,
  while the new one only takes 1.2 seconds, even though the new
  one is not multi-threaded yet. (And a proof-of-concept multi-
  threaded version was able to link it in 0.5 seconds.)

- It uses much less memory (250MB vs. 2GB virtual memory space
  to self-host).

- IMHO the new code is much simpler and easier to read than
  the existing PE/COFF port.

http://reviews.llvm.org/D10036

llvm-svn: 238458