Fangrui Song 122ba9f100 [ELF] Eliminate symbols demoted due to /DISCARD/ discarded sections (#85167)
#69295 demoted Defined symbols relative to discarded sections.
If such a symbol is unreferenced, the desired behavior is to
eliminate it from .symtab just like --gc-sections discarded
definitions.
Linux kernel's CONFIG_DEBUG_FORCE_WEAK_PER_CPU=y configuration expects
that the unreferenced `unused` is not emitted to .symtab
(https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/2006).

For relocations referencing demoted symbols, the symbol index restores
to 0 like older lld (`R_X86_64_64 0` in `discard-section.s`).

Fix #85048

(cherry picked from commit 8fe3e70e810b409dce36f6d415e86f0f9b1cf22d)
2024-03-14 17:01:14 +00:00
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2023-07-06 16:35:01 +02:00

LLVM Linker (lld)

This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.

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