COFF sections are accompanied with an auxiliary symbol which includes a
checksum. This checksum used to be filled with just zero but this seems
to upset LINK.exe when it is processing a /INCREMENTAL link job.
Instead, fill the CheckSum field with the JamCRC of the section
contents. This matches MSVC's behavior.
This fixes PR19666.
N.B. A rather simple implementation of JamCRC is given. It implements
a byte-wise calculation using the method given by Sarwate. There are
implementations with higher throughput like slice-by-eight and making
use of PCLMULQDQ. We can switch to one of those techniques if it turns
out to be a significant use of time.
llvm-svn: 246590
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
Prevent the early elimination of sections in the object writer. There may be
references to the section itself by other symbols, which may potentially not be
possible to resolve. ML (Visual Studio's Macro Assembler) also seems to retain
empty sections.
The elimination of symbols and sections which are unused should really occur at
the link phase. This will not cause any change in the resulting binary, simply
in the generated object files.
The adjustments to the other unit tests account for the fluctuating section
index caused by the appearance of sections which were previously discarded.
llvm-svn: 210373
