LLVM_ENABLE_TIMESTAMPS controls if timestamps are embedded into llvm's
binaries. Turning it off is useful for deterministic builds.
r246905 made it so that the define suddenly also controls if the binaries that
the llvm binaries _create_ embed timestamps or not – but this shouldn't be a
configure-time option. r256203/r256204 added a driver option to toggle this on
and off, so this patch now passes this driver option in LLVM_ENABLE_TIMESTAMPS
builds so that if LLVM_ENABLE_TIMESTAMPS is set, the build of LLVM is
deterministic – but the built clang can still write timestamps into other
executables when requested.
This also allows removing some of the test machinery added in r292012 to work
around this problem.
See PR24740 for background.
http://reviews.llvm.org/D15783
llvm-svn: 256958
Today, we always take into account the possibility that object files
produced by MC may be consumed by an incremental linker. This results
in us initialing fields which vary with time (TimeDateStamp) which harms
hermetic builds (e.g. verifying a self-host went well) and produces
sub-optimal code because we cannot assume anything about the relative
position of functions within a section (call sites can get redirected
through incremental linker thunks).
Let's provide an MCTargetOption which controls this behavior so that we
can disable this functionality if we know a-priori that the build will
not rely on /incremental.
llvm-svn: 256203
Support for COFF timestamps was unintentionally broken in r246905 when
it was conditionally available depending on whether or not LLVM was
configured with LLVM_ENABLE_TIMESTAMPS. However, Config/config.h was
never included which essentially broke the feature. Due to lax testing,
the breakage was never identified until we observed strange failures
during incremental links of Chromium.
This issue is resolved by simply including Config/config.h in
WinCOFFObjectWriter and teaching lit that the MC/COFF/timestamp.s test
is conditionally supported depending on LLVM_ENABLE_TIMESTAMPS. With
this in place, we can strengthen the test to ensure that it will not
accidentally get broken in the future.
This fixes PR25891.
llvm-svn: 256137
The MS incremental linker seems to inspect the timestamp written into
the object file to determine whether or not it's contents need to be
considered. Failing to set the timestamp to a date newer than the
executable will result in the object file not participating in
subsequent links. To ameliorate this, write the current time into the
object file's TimeDateStamp field.
llvm-svn: 246607
