If not for lazy linking of linkonce GVs, comdats are just a
preprocessing before symbol resolution.
Lazy linking complicates it since when we pick a visible member of
comdat, we have to make sure the rest of it passes symbol resolution
too.
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The difference is that now we don't error on out-of-comdat access to
internal global values. We copy them instead. This seems to match the
expectation of COFF linkers (see pr25686).
Original message:
Start deciding earlier what to link.
A traditional linker is roughly split in symbol resolution and
"copying
stuff".
The two tasks are badly mixed in lib/Linker.
This starts splitting them apart.
With this patch there are no direct call to linkGlobalValueBody or
linkGlobalValueProto. Everything is linked via WapValue.
This also includes a few fixes:
* A GV goes undefined if the comdat is dropped (comdat11.ll).
* We error if an internal GV goes undefined (comdat13.ll).
* We don't link an unused comdat.
The first two match the behavior of an ELF linker. The second one is
equivalent to running globaldce on the input.
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A traditional linker is roughly split in symbol resolution and "copying
stuff".
The two tasks are badly mixed in lib/Linker.
This starts splitting them apart.
With this patch there are no direct call to linkGlobalValueBody or
linkGlobalValueProto. Everything is linked via WapValue.
This also includes a few fixes:
* A GV goes undefined if the comdat is dropped (comdat11.ll).
* We error if an internal GV goes undefined (comdat13.ll).
* We don't link an unused comdat.
The first two match the behavior of an ELF linker. The second one is
equivalent to running globaldce on the input.
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In order to make comdats always explicit in the IR, we decided to make
the syntax a bit more compact for the case of a GlobalObject in a
comdat with the same name.
Just dropping the $name causes problems for
@foo = globabl i32 0, comdat
$bar = comdat ...
and
declare void @foo() comdat
$bar = comdat ...
So the syntax is changed to
@g1 = globabl i32 0, comdat($c1)
@g2 = globabl i32 0, comdat
and
declare void @foo() comdat($c1)
declare void @foo() comdat
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We were setting the comdat when functions were copied in the initial pass, but
not when they were linked only when we found out that they are needed.
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