Note that the current documentation for the `-z noexecstack` is
incorrect. This indicates that an object *does not* require an
executable stack.
This is actually the default of LLD, and there has never been a way to
override this default by passing `-z execstack` to LLD.
This commit removes the redundant `-z noexecstack` option from
zig build-exe/build-lib/build-obj and ignores the option if passed
to zig cc for compatibility.
As far as I can tell, there is no reason for code to require an
executable stack. This option only exists because the stack was
originally executable by default and some programs came to depend
on that behavior. Instead, mprotect(2) may be used to make memory
pages executable.
I'm not really happy with parsing compile errors; I think we should just
be checking that the expected compile error matches the actual rendered
version. I will save that change for a later date however.
And use it to debug a LazySrcLoc in stage2 that is set to a bogus value.
The actual fix in this commit is:
```diff
- try sema.emitBackwardBranch(&child_block, call_src);
+ try sema.emitBackwardBranch(block, call_src);
```
Whenever a `ref` instruction is needed, it is created and saved in
`AstGen.ref_table` instead of being immediately appended to the current
block body. Then, when the referenced instruction is being added to the
parent block (e.g. from setBlockBody), if it has a ref_table entry, then
the ref instruction is added directly after the instruction being referenced.
This makes sure two properties are upheld:
1. All pointers to the same locals return the same address. This is required
to be compliant with the language specification.
2. `ref` instructions will dominate their uses. This is a required property
of ZIR.
A complication arises when a ref instruction refs another ref
instruction. The logic in appendBodyWithFixups must take this into
account, recursively handling ref refs.
Full RELRO is a hardening feature that makes it impossible to perform
certian attacks involving overwriting parts of the Global Offset Table
to invoke arbitrary code.
It requires all symbols to be resolved before execution of the program
starts which may have an impact on startup time. However most if
not all popular Linux distributions enable full RELRO by default for
all binaries and this does not seem to make a noticeable difference
in practice.
"Partial RELRO" is equivalent to `-z relro -z lazy`.
"Full RELRO" is equivalent to `-z relro -z now`.
LLD defaults to `-z relro -z lazy`, which means Zig's current `-z relro`
option has no effect on LLD's behavior.
The changes made by this commit are as follows:
- Document that `-z relro` is the default and add `-z norelro`.
- Pass `-z now` to LLD by default to enable full RELRO by default.
- Add `-z lazy` to disable passing `-z now`.
Zig allows multiple extern functions with the same name, and the
backends have to handle this possibility.
For LLVM, we keep a sparse map of collisions, and then resolve them in
flushModule(). This introduces some technical debt that will have to be
resolved when adding incremental compilation support to the LLVM
backend.
Split type relocs into two kinds: local and global. Global relocs
use a global type resolver and calculate offset to the existing
definition of a type abbreviation.
Local relocs use offset in the abbrev section of the containing
atom plus addend to generate a local relocation.
