This CL grew the archive file name length from 16 to 64:
changeset: 909:58574851d792
user: Russ Cox <rsc@golang.org>
date: Mon Oct 20 13:53:56 2008 -0700
Back then, every x.go file in a package became an x.6 file
in the archive. It was important to be able to allow the
use of long Go source file names, hence the increase in size.
Today, all Go source files compile into a single _go_.6 file
regardless of their names, so the archive file name length
no longer needs to be long. The longer name causes some
problems on Plan 9, where the native archive format is the
same but with 16-byte names, so revert back to 16.
R=golang-dev, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5333050
Move string table to the end of the __LINKEDIT segment.
This change allows Apple's codesign(1) utility to successfully sign
Go binaries, as long as they don't contain DWARF data (-w flag to
8l/6l). This is because codesign(1) expects the string table to be
the last part of the file.
R=golang-dev, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5271050
The Windows signtool.exe thinks our binaries are 'invalid
Win32 programs' unless the PE linker version field is 3.0
or greater.
This minor change makes it possible to successfully sign
gc-built binaries on Windows.
R=golang-dev, alex.brainman, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5268045
The map implementation was using the C idiom of using
a pointer just past the end of its table as a limit pointer.
Unfortunately, the garbage collector sees that pointer as
pointing at the block adjacent to the map table, pinning
in memory a block that would otherwise be freed.
Fix by making limit pointer point at last valid entry, not
just past it.
Reviewed by Mike Burrows.
R=golang-dev, bradfitz, lvd, r
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/5158045
The Go version has 64 character long section names; originally,
in Plan 9, the limit was 16. To provide compatibility, this
change allows the input length to be either the target length
or the earlier option. The section name is extended with spaces
where required.
This has been tested to work without regressions in the
Go environment, testing the older alternative has not been
possible yet.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4650071
The EXTERN lines in elf.h already define these.
That's not a problem for most C compilers, but
apparently it is for some copies of the OS X linker.
Fixes#2167.
R=golang-dev, iant
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4936044
ld/data.c:
. Format specifier with corresponding cast to cater for all
architectures (llux and vlong).
ld/ldelf.c:
ld/ldmacho.c:
. Missing "pn" argument in diag() calls.
ld/ldpe.c:
. Dropped "sym->sectnum" in diag() call.
. Typo in a comment.
ld/lib.h:
. Added varargck pragma for "O".
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4749042
The dynamic ELF sections were pointing to the proper data,
but that data was already owned by the rodata and text sections.
Some ELF references explicitly prohibit multiple sections from
owning the same data, and strip behaves accordingly.
The data for these sections was moved out and their ranges are
now owned by their respective sections. This change makes strip
happy both with and without -s being provided at link time.
A test was added in debug/elf to ensure there are no regressions
on this area in the future.
Fixes#1242.
Fixes#2022.
NOTE: Tested on Linux amd64/386/arm only.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4808043
Reduces number of write+seek's from 88516 to 2080
when linking godoc with 6l.
Thanks to Alex Brainman for pointing out the
many small writes.
R=golang-dev, r, alex.brainman, robert.hencke
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4743043
The gosymtab and gopclntab sections were pointing to the proper
data, but that data was already owned by the rodata section.
Some ELF references explicitly prohibit multiple sections from
owning the same data, and strip behaves accordingly.
The data for these sections was moved to after rodata, and the
gosymtab and gopclntab sections now own their respective ranges.
This change makes strip happy both with and without -s being
provided at link time. Note that it won't remove these sections
because they are still allocated, and that's by design since
they are necessary at runtime for generating proper backtraces
and similar introspection operations.
Unlike the previous behavior, -s will now maintain zero-sized
gosymtab and gopclntab sections. This makes the implementation
slightly cleaner.
Fixes#1242.
NOTE: Tested on Linux amd64/386/arm only.
R=ality, rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4639077
This prevents ld from generating zeroed symtab entries for
sections that aren't going to be generated because dynamic
linkage has been disabled (-d was used or no dynamic libs
were seen). Even though they were not explicitly added by
doelf, the section creation process was making them
reachable again.
The windows head is being disconsidered for this because
apparently it's not taking into account debug['d'].
This makes elflint 0.1% happier.
R=golang-dev, rsc, gustavo
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4638050
Once these changes are effected, it is possible to construct
"8l" native on a (386?) Plan 9 system, albeit with assistance
from modules such as mkfiles that are not (yet) included in any
public patches.
8l/asm.c:
. Corrected some format qualifiers.
8l/list.c:
. Cast a print() argument to (int) to match the given format.
It may be possible to change the format (%R), but I have not
looked into it.
8l/obj.c:
. Removed some unused code.
8l/span.c:
. Removed unnecessary incrementation on "bp".
. Corrected some format qualifiers.
ld/data.c:
. Corrected some format qualifiers.
. Cast print argument to (int): used as field size.
. Use braces to suppress warning about empty if() statements.
ld/dwarf.c:
. Trivial spelling mistake in comment.
ld/ldelf.c:
. Added USED() statements to silence warnings.
. Dropped redundant address (&) operators.
. corrected some format qualifiers.
. Cast to (int) for switch selection variable.
ld/macho.c:
. Added USED() statements to silence warnings.
ld/ldpe.c:
. Added USED() statements to silence warnings.
. More careful use of "sect" variable.
. Corrected some format qualifiers.
. Removed redundant assignments.
. Minor fix dropped as it was submitted separately.
ld/pe.c:
. Dropped <time.h> which is now in <u.h>.
. Dropped redundant address (&) operators.
. Added a missing variable initialisation.
ld/symtab.c:
. Added USED() statements to silence warnings.
. Removed redundant incrementation.
. Corrected some format qualifiers.
All the above have been tested against a (very) recent release
and do not seem to trigger any regressions.
All review suggestions have been incorporated.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4633043
The "elf.h" header changes involve only comments, the released
Plan 9 C preprocessing function does not cope with multiline
comments following the #define keyword. All multiline comments
have been moved to the line above the associated definition.
Sigh! Fixing the Plan 9 compiler is not an option.
<time.h> does not exist in the Plan 9 Native library. I have
moved it from src/cmd/ld/pe.h to include/u.h. RSC correctly points
out that this copy of <u.h> is not the one used to compile the
Go release on Plan 9 platforms.
R=golang-dev
CC=golang-dev, rsc
https://golang.org/cl/4574042
Makes it possible for older tools like objdump to find the filenames,
fixes objdump -d -l --start-address=0x400c00 --stop-address=0x400c36 6.out
fixes#1950
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4609043
I started looking at this code because the nm in GNU
binutils was ignoring the first symbol in the .symtab
section. Apparently, the System V ABI reserves the
first entry and requires all fields inside to be set
to zero.
The list of changes is as follows:
· reserve the first symbol entry (as noted above)
· fix the section indices for .data and .bss symbols
· factor out common code for Elf32 and Elf64
· remove the special case for elfsymo in [568]l/asm.c:/^asmb
· add the "etext" symbol in 6l
· add static symbols
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4524075
These changes are not particularly invasive and have been tested
as broadly as possible.
8l/l.h:
- #pragma varargck: added some, removed duplicates.
ld/dwarf.c:
- As Plan 9 has no NULL, changed all occurrences to nil.
- Added USED(size); where necessary.
- Added (void) argument in definition of finddebugruntimepath().
- Plan 9 compiler was complaining about multiple
assignments, repeaired by breaking up the commands.
- Correction: havedynamic = 1; restored.
ld/go.c:
- Needed USED(file); in two functions.
- Removed unused assignments flagged by the Plan 9 compiler.
ld/lib.c:
- Replaced unlink() with remove() which seems available everywhere.
- Removed USED(c4); and USED(magic) no longer required.
- Removed code flagged as unused by the Plan 9 compiler.
- Added attributes to a number of format strings.
R=rsc
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4435047
Reenable dwarf output on Mac.
Was writing headers but no actual dwarf data.
Fixes#1877 (accidentally).
Workaround for issue 1878.
R=lvd
CC=golang-dev
https://golang.org/cl/4515139
