* plugin-api.h
(ld_plugin_section): New struct.
(ld_plugin_get_section_count): New typedef.
(ld_plugin_get_section_type): New typedef.
(ld_plugin_get_section_name): New typedef.
(ld_plugin_get_section_contents): New typedef.
(ld_plugin_update_section_order): New typedef.
(ld_plugin_allow_section_ordering): New typedef.
(LDPT_GET_SECTION_COUNT): New enum value.
(LDPT_GET_SECTION_TYPE): New enum value.
(LDPT_GET_SECTION_NAME): New enum value.
(LDPT_GET_SECTION_CONTENTS): New enum value.
(LDPT_UPDATE_SECTION_ORDER): New enum value.
(LDPT_ALLOW_SECTION_ORDERING): New enum value.
(tv_get_section_count): New struct members.
(tv_get_section_type): New struct members.
(tv_get_section_name): New struct members.
(tv_get_section_contents): New struct members.
(tv_update_section_order): New struct members.
(tv_allow_section_ordering): New struct members.
* archive.cc (Archive::get_elf_object_for_member): Add extra parameter
to claim_file call.
* layout.cc (Layout::Layout): Initialize section_ordering_specified_,
input_section_position_, and input_section_glob_.
(read_layout_from_file): Call function section_ordering_specified.
* layout.h (is_section_ordering_specified): New function.
(section_ordering_specified): New function.
(section_ordering_specified_): New boolean member.
* main.cc(main): Call load_plugins after layout object is defined.
* output.cc (Output_section::add_input_section): Use
function section_ordering_specified to check if section ordering is
needed.
* output.cc (Output_section::add_relaxed_input_section): Use
function section_ordering_specified to check if section ordering is
needed.
(Output_section::update_section_layout): New function.
(Output_section::sort_attached_input_sections): Check if input section
must be reordered.
* output.h (Output_section::update_section_layout): New function.
* plugin.cc (get_section_count): New function.
(get_section_type): New function.
(get_section_name): New function.
(get_section_contents): New function.
(update_section_order): New function.
(allow_section_ordering): New function.
(Plugin::load): Add the new interfaces to the transfer vector.
(Plugin_manager::load_plugins): New parameter.
(Plugin_manager::all_symbols_read): New parameter.
(Plugin_manager::claim_file): New parameter. Save the elf object for
unclaimed objects.
(Plugin_manager::get_elf_object): New function.
(Plugin_manager::get_view): Change to directly use the bool to check
if get_view is called from claim_file_hook.
* plugin.h (input_objects): New function
(Plugin__manager::load_plugins): New parameter.
(Plugin_manager::claim_file): New parameter.
(Plugin_manager::get_elf_object): New function.
(Plugin_manager::in_claim_file_handler): New function.
(Plugin_manager::in_claim_file_handler_): New member.
(layout): New function.
* readsyms.cc (Read_symbols::do_read_symbols): Call the claim_file
handler with an extra parameter. Make the elf object before calling
claim_file handler.
* testsuite/plugin_test.c (get_section_count): New function pointer.
(get_section_type): New function pointer.
(get_section_name): New function pointer.
(get_section_contents): New function pointer.
(update_section_order): New function pointer.
(allow_section_ordering): New function pointer.
(onload): Check if the new interfaces exist.
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:
* MRI compatible linker scripts
* cross-reference reports (--cref)
* 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 and 4.1.3 are known to work. g++
3.2, 3.4.3, and 4.1.2 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.
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