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
This reverts commit r190888, to fix PR17967. The original change wasn't
the right way to get @feat.00 into the object file. The right fix is to
make @feat.00 be a global symbol.
llvm-svn: 195053
Summary:
We indicate that the object files are safe by emitting a @feat.00
absolute address symbol. The address is presumably interpreted as a
bitfield of features that the compiler would like to enable. Bit 0 is
documented in the PE COFF spec to opt in to "registered SEH", which is
what /safeseh enables.
LLVM's object files are safe by default because LLVM doesn't know how to
produce SEH handlers.
Reviewers: Bigcheese
CC: llvm-commits
Differential Revision: http://llvm-reviews.chandlerc.com/D1691
llvm-svn: 190898
