Sorry for the mega-commit, this diff got a little out of control.
The main thing here is a complete rework of how Elf2 handles the symbol
table. I messed around with the design for a while and landed on
something which is fairly memory-efficient (in particular the overhead
for STB_LOCAL symbols is as low as possible) and fulfils some of the
more awkward constraints of the ELF format. The main such constraint is
that all STB_LOCAL symbols in a symbol table are required to appear
before any STB_GLOBAL/STB_WEAK symbols. This is further complicated by
the fact that when producing a DSO, symbols with STV_HIDDEN or
STV_INTERNAL visibility are required to have STB_LOCAL binding in the
symbol table, even though they are global symbols from the perspective
of the link editor. Plus, when combining multiple symbols with the same
name, the resulting visibility is the strictest of all of the inputs, so
it is possible at any point in compilation to discover an extern/export
symbol which forces an existing STB_GLOBAL symbol to become STB_LOCAL
and therefore requires it to move to an earlier symtab index. Dealing
with all of this was quite awkward.
But I got there! I also implemented a lot of features in the process. I
don't remember everything perfectly, but here's a vague list:
* Multiple definitions of and/or unresolved references to symbols are
now combined correctly in all cases
* `.bss` sections from inputs are correctly lowered (we don't actually
emit a `.bss` section of our own yet, but I was able to put that data
into the `.data` section so that the functionality is correct)
* Relocations in link inputs are now always processed (previously they
would be silently ignored in most cases)
* Linker errors are triggered if a supported input section has a
relocation which targets an unsupported input section (previously
the unsupported section's symbol was dropped and associated
relocations would be silently ignored)
* When linking a static executable, an error is emitted if a required
symbol (i.e. an undefined reference with strong linkage) was never
defined
* Duplicate symbol errors now work correctly
* When emitting a relocatable, the offsets of relocation entries are now
correct (previously the offsets written were relative to a symbol
rather than a section, meaning that e.g. almost all text relocations
were just in a single function)
The changes in all of the other linkers and codegen backends are some
added type-safety at the codegen-linker API boundary. There are now
distinct `u32`-backed types for identifying an "atom" (the thing we're
codegenning) and a "symbol" (the thing which a relocation targets).
Linker implementations can use a couple of private helper functions to
convert between this implementation-agnostic type and their specific
type; for instance, `Elf2` can convert between a `Symbol.Id` and a
`link.File.SymbolId` with `Symbol.Id.fromTypeErased` and
`Symbol.Id.toTypeErased`. I didn't implement this nicely for any other
linker, so right now there's a lot of `@enumFromInt`/`@intFromEnum`
sprinkled all over the place, particularly with the legacy ELF and
Mach-O linkers.
I tested that I could still perform incremental updates to the Zig
compiler using this commit. In terms of the new behaviors, the most
interesting stuff is symbol and relocation resolution, so I ran a few
tests involving building a "Hello World" binary in various different
ways:
* `build-exe` correctly succeeds
* `build-exe -fno-compiler-rt` correctly reports undefined symbols
* `build-obj` linked with `build-exe` correctly succeeds
* `build-obj` linked with `build-exe -fno-compiler-rt` correctly reports
undefined symbols
* `build-obj -fcompiler-rt` linked with `build-exe -fno-compiler-rt`
correctly succeeds
* `build-obj -fcompiler-rt` linked with `build-exe` correctly succeeds
(the compiler-rt symbols are weak so the global symbols are
arbitrarily resolved to one of the two implementations)
I also manually verified with `readelf` that symbol tables were always
ordered correctly (before this PR, `readelf -s` would usually emit
warnings about incorrectly-ordered symtabs!), and verified that various
visibility attributes worked as expected.
No actual test coverage is added due to the current lack of a useful
linker test harness. Once a good test harness is available I will be
willing to write some tests.
This PR merges the functionality of the `getLastOrNull` method into `getLast`, which improves consistency as its
based on methods like `front`, `back`, and `peek` in the `Deque` and `PriorityQueue` containers.
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/32008
Reviewed-by: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
As of LLVM 22, most backends can (finally) handle legalization of these types as
necessary, so we don't need to do it ourselves anymore.
closes https://github.com/ziglang/zig/issues/23674
Followup to #30769
I grepped for `try .*toOwnedSlice` and checked all of them by hand.
Fixes a bunch of memory leaks removes usages or `errdefer` and `vars` in some places. I also switched array_list.Managed to ArrayList where it was convenient.
Reviewed-on: https://codeberg.org/ziglang/zig/pulls/32001
Reviewed-by: Andrew Kelley <andrew@ziglang.org>
Alex Rønne Petersen