We were creating a weak external that tried to reference a static symbol. That
would always fail to link with link.exe.
We now create an external symbol in the same position as the local and refer
to that. This works with link.exe and matches what gas does.
llvm-svn: 270906
This adds support for reading the "bigobj" variant of COFF produced by
cl's /bigobj and mingw's -mbig-obj.
The most significant difference that bigobj brings is more than 2**16
sections to COFF.
bigobj brings a few interesting differences with it:
- It doesn't have a Characteristics field in the file header.
- It doesn't have a SizeOfOptionalHeader field in the file header (it's
only used in executable files).
- Auxiliary symbol records have the same width as a symbol table entry.
Since symbol table entries are bigger, so are auxiliary symbol
records.
Write support will come soon.
Differential Revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D5259
llvm-svn: 217496
Microsoft PE/COFF Spec clearly states that the field is of signed interger
type. However, in reality, it's unsigned. If cl.exe needs to create a large
number of sections for COMDAT sections, it will just create more than 32768
sections. Handling large section number as negative number is not correct.
I think this is a spec bug.
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D3088
llvm-svn: 203986
