According to a comment in mold, this is the expected (and desired)
condition by the linkers, except for some architectures (RISCV and
Loongarch) where this condition does not have to upheld.
If you follow the changes in this patch and in particular doc comments
I have linked the comment/code in mold that explains and implements
this.
I have also modified `testEhFrameRelocatable` test to now test both
cases such that `zig ld -r a.o b.o -o c.o` and `zig ld -r b.o a.o -o
d.o`. In both cases, `c.o` and `d.o` should produce valid object
files which was not the case before this patch.
The compiler defaults this value to off so that users whose system
shared libraries are all ELF files don't have to pay the cost of
checking every file to find out if it is a text file instead.
When a GNU ld script is encountered, the error message instructs users
about the CLI flag that will immediately solve their problem.
along with the relevant logic, making the libraries within subject to
the same search criteria as all the other libraries.
this unfortunately means doing file system access on all .so files when
targeting ELF to determine if they are linker scripts, however, I have a
plan to address this.
flush() must not do anything more than necessary. Determining the type
of input files must be done only once, before flush. Fortunately, we
don't even need any file system accesses to do this since that
information is statically known in most cases, and in the rest of the
cases can be determined by file extension alone.
This commit also updates the nearby code to conform to the convention
for error handling where there is exactly one error code to represent
the fact that error messages have already been emitted. This had the
side effect of improving the error message for a linker script parse
error.
"positionals" is not a linker concept; it is a command line interface
concept. Zig's linker implementation should not mention "positionals".
This commit deletes that array list in favor of directly making function
calls, eliminating that heap allocation during flush().
The compiler actually doesn't need any functional changes for this: Sema
does reification based on the tag indices of `std.builtin.Type` already!
So, no zig1.wasm update is necessary.
This change is necessary to disallow name clashes between fields and
decls on a type, which is a prerequisite of #9938.
These are fundamentally incapable of producing accurate information for reasons
I've laid out in #20771. Since our only use of these functions is to check that
object files have the correct machine type, and since #21020 made
`std.Target.to{Coff,Elf}Machine()` more accurate, just switch these checks over
to that and compare the machine type tags instead.
Closes#20771.
Had constrained the `aarch64_be` target, but not `aarch64`. This
constraint is necessary because earlier versions of glibc do not support
the aarch64 architecture.
Also, skip unsupported test cases.
glibc_runtime_check.c is a simple test case that exercises glibc functions
that might smoke out linking problems with Zig's C compiler. The
build.zig compiles it against a variety of glibc versions.
Also document and test glibc v2.2.5 (from 2002) as the oldest working
glibc target for C binaries.
Fixes regression introduced by 5d5e89aa8d
Turns out since landing that PR we haven't run any tests requiring
symlinks or any Apple SDK on a macOS host. Not great.
Andrew and I have discovered that on Linux max peak rss value
is taken to be `max(build_runner, test_suite)` and since the thunks
test emit a huge binary, we will easily exceed the declared maximum
for any of the test suites. This can be worked around for now by not
checking for $thunk symbols in this test since it doesn't really
yield any additional information; however ideally we would implement
per-thread local temp arena that can be freed.
