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llvm/lld/ELF
George Rimar 63a6ca9150 [ELF] Implements -z relro: create an ELF "PT_GNU_RELRO" segment header in the object.
Partial (-z relro) and full (-z relro, -z now) relro cases are implemented.

Partial relro:
The ELF sections are reordered so that the ELF internal data sections (.got, .dtors, etc.) precede the program's data sections (.data and .bss).
.got is readonly, .got.plt is still writeable.

Full relro:
Supports all the features of partial RELRO, .got.plt is also readonly.

Differential revision: http://reviews.llvm.org/D14218

llvm-svn: 253967
2015-11-24 09:44:28 +00:00
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2015-11-20 02:10:52 +00:00
2015-11-12 19:45:58 +00:00

The New ELF Linker

This directory contains a port of the new PE/COFF linker for ELF.

Overall Design

See COFF/README.md for details on the design. Note that unlike COFF, we do not distinguish chunks from input sections; they are merged together.

Capabilities

This linker can link LLVM and Clang on Linux/x86-64 or FreeBSD/x86-64 with -LLVM_ENABLE_THREADS=OFF. "Hello world" can be linked on Linux/PPC64.

Performance

Achieving good performance is one of our goals. It's too early to reach a conclusion, but we are optimistic about that as it currently seems to be faster than GNU gold. It will be interesting to compare when we are close to feature parity.