Move symbol resolution code out of SymbolTable class.
This is the last patch of the series of patches to make it possible to resolve symbols without asking SymbolTable to do so. The main point of this patch is the introduction of `elf::resolveSymbol(Symbol *Old, Symbol *New)`. That function resolves or merges given symbols by examining symbol types and call replaceSymbol (which memcpy's New to Old) if necessary. With the new function, we have now separated symbol resolution from symbol lookup. If you already have a Symbol pointer, you can directly resolve the symbol without asking SymbolTable to do that. Now that the nice abstraction become available, I can start working on performance improvement of the linker. As a starter, I'm thinking of making --{start,end}-lib faster. --{start,end}-lib is currently unnecessarily slow because it looks up the symbol table twice for each symbol. - The first hash table lookup/insertion occurs when we instantiate a LazyObject file to insert LazyObject symbols. - The second hash table lookup/insertion occurs when we create an ObjFile from LazyObject file. That overwrites LazyObject symbols with Defined symbols. I think it is not too hard to see how we can now eliminate the second hash table lookup. We can keep LazyObject symbols in Step 1, and then call elf::resolveSymbol() to do Step 2. Differential Revision: https://reviews.llvm.org/D61898 llvm-svn: 360975
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