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C allows you to do only a very few things with entities of incomplete type (as opposed to pointers to them): make pointers to them and give them cv-quals, roughly. In particular you can't sizeof them and you can't get their alignment. We cannot impose all the requirements the standard imposes on CTF users, because the deduplicator can transform any structure type into a forward for the purposes of breaking cycles: so CTF type graphs can easily contain things like arrays of forward type (if you want to figure out their size or alignment, you need to chase down the types this forward might be a forward to in child TU dicts: we will soon add API functions to make doing this much easier). Nonetheless, it is still meaningless to ask for the size or alignment of forwards: but libctf didn't prohibit this and returned nonsense from internal implementation details when you asked (it returned the kind of the pointed-to type as both the size and alignment, because forwards reuse ctt_type as a type kind, and ctt_type and ctt_size overlap). So introduce a new error, ECTF_INCOMPLETE, which is returned when you try to get the size or alignment of forwards: we also return it when you try to do things that require libctf itself to get the size or alignment of a forward, notably using a forward as an array index type (which C should never do in any case) or adding forwards to structures without specifying their offset explicitly. The dumper will not emit size or alignment info for forwards any more. (This should not be an API break since ctf_type_size and ctf_type_align could both return errors before now: any code that isn't expecting error returns is already potentially broken.) include/ChangeLog 2021-01-05 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ctf-api.h (ECTF_INCOMPLETE): New. (ECTF_NERR): Adjust. ld/ChangeLog 2021-01-05 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-cycle-1.parent.d: Adjust for dumper changes. * testsuite/ld-ctf/cross-tu-cyclic-conflicting.d: Likewise. * testsuite/ld-ctf/forward.c: New test... * testsuite/ld-ctf/forward.d: ... and results. libctf/ChangeLog 2021-01-05 Nick Alcock <nick.alcock@oracle.com> * ctf-types.c (ctf_type_resolve): Improve comment. (ctf_type_size): Yield ECTF_INCOMPLETE when applied to forwards. Emit errors into the right dict. (ctf_type_align): Likewise. * ctf-create.c (ctf_add_member_offset): Yield ECTF_INCOMPLETE when adding a member without explicit offset when this member, or the previous member, is incomplete. * ctf-dump.c (ctf_dump_format_type): Do not try to print the size of forwards. (ctf_dump_member): Do not try to print their alignment. |
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texi), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texi).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texi manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
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