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Target::new_output_section. (Layout::attach_allocated_section_to_segment): Put large section sections in a separate load segment with the large segment flag set. (Layout::segment_precedes): Sort large data segments after other load segments. (align_file_offset): New static function. (Layout::set_segment_offsets): Use align_file_offset. * output.h (class Output_section): Add is_small_section_ and is_large_section_ fields. (Output_section::is_small_section): New function. (Output_section::set_is_small_section): New function. (Output_section::is_large_section): New function. (Output_section::set_is_large_section): New function. (Output_section::is_large_data_section): New function. (class Output_segment): Add is_large_data_segment_ field. (Output_segment::is_large_data_segment): New function. (Output_segment::set_is_large_data_segment): New function. * output.cc (Output_section::Output_section): Initialize new fields. (Output_segment::Output_segment): Likewise. (Output_segment::add_output_section): Add assertion that large data sections always go in large data segments. Force small data sections to the end of the list of data sections. Force small BSS sections to the start of the list of BSS sections. For large BSS sections to the end of the list of BSS sections. * symtab.h (class Symbol): Declare is_common_shndx. (Symbol::is_defined): Check Symbol::is_common_shndx. (Symbol::is_common): Likewise. (class Symbol_table): Define enum Commons_section_type. Update declarations. Add small_commons_ and large_commons_ fields. * symtab.cc (Symbol::is_common_shndx): New function. (Symbol_table::Symbol_table): Initialize new fields. (Symbol_table::add_from_object): Put small and large common symbols in the right list. (Symbol_table::sized_finalized_symbol): Check Symbol::is_common_shndx. (Symbol_table::sized_write_globals): Likewise. * common.cc (Symbol_table::do_allocate_commons): Allocate new common symbol lists. Don't call do_allocate_commons_list if the list is empty. (Symbol_table::do_allocate_commons_list): Remove is_tls parameter. Add comons_section_type parameter. Change all callers. Handle small and large common symbols. * object.cc (Sized_relobj::do_finalize_local_symbols): Check Symbol::is_common_shndx. * resolve.cc (symbol_to_bits): Likewise. * target.h (Target::small_common_shndx): New function. (Target::small_common_section_flags): New function. (Target::large_common_shndx): New function. (Target::large_common_section_flags): New function. (Target::new_output_section): New function. (Target::Target_info): Add small_common_shndx, large_common_shndx, small_common_section_flags, and large_common_section_flags fields. (Target::do_new_output_section): New virtual function. * arm.cc (Target_arm::arm_info): Initialize new fields. * i386.cc (Target_i386::i386_info): Likewise. * powerpc.cc (Target_powerpc::powerpc_info) [all versions]: Likewise. * sparc.c (Target_sparc::sparc_info) [all versions]: Likewise. * x86_64.cc (Target_x86_64::x86_64_info): Likewise. (Target_x86_64::do_new_output_section): New function. * configure.ac: Define conditional MCMODEL_MEDIUM. * testsuite/Makefile.am (check_PROGRAMS): Add large. (large_SOURCES, large_CFLAGS, large_DEPENDENCIES): Define. (large_LDFLAGS): Define. * testsuite/large.c: New file. * testsuite/testfile.cc (Target_test::test_target_info): Initialize new fields. * configure, testsuite/Makefile.in: Rebuild.
gold is an ELF linker. It is intended to have complete support for
ELF and to run as fast as possible on modern systems. For normal use
it is a drop-in replacement for the older GNU linker.
gold is part of the GNU binutils. See ../binutils/README for more
general notes, including where to send bug reports.
gold was originally developed at Google, and was contributed to the
Free Software Foundation in March 2008. At Google it was designed by
Ian Lance Taylor, with major contributions by Cary Coutant, Craig
Silverstein, and Andrew Chatham.
The existing GNU linker manual is intended to be accurate
documentation for features which gold supports. gold supports most of
the features of the GNU linker for ELF targets. Notable
omissions--features of the GNU linker not currently supported in
gold--are:
* MEMORY regions in linker scripts
* MRI compatible linker scripts
* cross-reference reports (--cref)
* position independent executables (-pie)
* various other minor options
Notes on the code
=================
These are some notes which may be helpful to people working on the
source code of gold itself.
gold is written in C++. It is a GNU program, and therefore follows
the GNU formatting standards as modified for C++. Source documents in
order of decreasing precedence:
http://www.gnu.org/prep/standards/
http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/libstdc++/17_intro/C++STYLE
http://www.zembu.com/eng/procs/c++style.html
The linker is intended to have complete support for cross-compilation,
while still supporting the normal case of native linking as fast as
possible. In order to do this, many classes are actually templates
whose parameter is the ELF file class (e.g., 32 bits or 64 bits). The
C++ code is the same, but we don't pay the execution time cost of
always using 64-bit integers if the target is 32 bits. Many of these
class templates also have an endianness parameter: true for
big-endian, false for little-endian.
The linker is multi-threaded. The Task class represents a single unit
of work. Task objects are stored on a single Workqueue object. Tasks
communicate via Task_token objects. Task_token objects are only
manipulated while holding the master Workqueue lock. Relatively few
mutexes are used.
Build requirements
==================
The gold source code uses templates heavily. Building it requires a
recent version of g++. g++ 4.0.3 is known to work. g++ 3.2 and g++
3.4.3 are known to fail.
The linker script parser uses features which are only in newer
versions of bison. bison 2.3 is known to work. bison 1.26 is known
to fail. If you are building gold from an official binutils release,
the bison output should already be included.