For COFF and MachO, sections semantically have relocations that apply to them.
That is not the case on ELF.
In relocatable objects (.o), a section with relocations in ELF has offsets to
another section where the relocations should be applied.
In dynamic objects and executables, relocations don't have an offset, they have
a virtual address. The section sh_info may or may not point to another section,
but that is not actually used for resolving the relocations.
This patch exposes that in the ObjectFile API. It has the following advantages:
* Most (all?) clients can handle this more efficiently. They will normally walk
all relocations, so doing an effort to iterate in a particular order doesn't
save time.
* llvm-readobj now prints relocations in the same way the native readelf does.
* probably most important, relocations that don't point to any section are now
visible. This is the case of relocations in the rela.dyn section. See the
updated relocation-executable.test for example.
llvm-svn: 182908
This patch implements the PPCDAGToDAGISel::PostprocessISelDAG virtual
method to perform post-selection peephole optimizations on the DAG
representation.
One optimization is implemented here: folds to clean up complex
addressing expressions for thread-local storage and medium code
model. It will also be useful for large code model sequences when
those are added later. I originally thought about doing this on the
MI representation prior to register assignment, but it's difficult to
do effective global dead code elimination at that point. DCE is
trivial on the DAG representation.
A typical example of a candidate code sequence in assembly:
addis 3, 2, globalvar@toc@ha
addi 3, 3, globalvar@toc@l
lwz 5, 0(3)
When the final instruction is a load or store with an immediate offset
of zero, the offset from the add-immediate can replace the zero,
provided the relocation information is carried along:
addis 3, 2, globalvar@toc@ha
lwz 5, globalvar@toc@l(3)
Since the addi can in general have multiple uses, we need to only
delete the instruction when the last use is removed.
llvm-svn: 175697
