Also adds support for live_support sections, no_dead_strip sections,
.no_dead_strip symbols.
Chromium Framework 345MB unstripped -> 250MB stripped
(vs 290MB unstripped -> 236M stripped with ld64).
Doing dead stripping is a bit faster than not, because so much less
data needs to be processed:
% ministat lld_* x lld_nostrip.txt + lld_strip.txt N Min Max Median Avg Stddev x 10 3.929414 4.07692 4.0269079 4.0089678 0.044214794 + 10 3.8129408 3.9025559 3.8670411 3.8642573 0.024779651 Difference at 95.0% confidence -0.144711 +/- 0.0336749 -3.60967% +/- 0.839989% (Student's t, pooled s = 0.0358398)
This interacts with many parts of the linker. I tried to add test coverage
for all added isLive() checks, so that some test will fail if any of them
is removed. I checked that the test expectations for the most part match
ld64's behavior (except for live-support-iterations.s, see the comment
in the test). Interacts with:
- debug info
- export tries
- import opcodes
- flags like -exported_symbol(s_list)
- -U / dynamic_lookup
- mod_init_funcs, mod_term_funcs
- weak symbol handling
- unwind info
- stubs
- map files
- -sectcreate
- undefined, dylib, common, defined (both absolute and normal) symbols
It's possible it interacts with more features I didn't think of,
of course.
I also did some manual testing:
- check-llvm check-clang check-lld work with lld with this patch as host linker and -dead_strip enabled
- Chromium still starts
- Chromium's base_unittests still pass, including unwind tests
Implemenation-wise, this is InputSection-based, so it'll work for
object files with .subsections_via_symbols (which includes all
object files generated by clang). I first based this on the COFF
implementation, but later realized that things are more similar to ELF.
I think it'd be good to refactor MarkLive.cpp to look more like the ELF
part at some point, but I'd like to get a working state checked in first.
Mechanical parts:
- Rename canOmitFromOutput to wasCoalesced (no behavior change) since it really is for weak coalesced symbols
- Add noDeadStrip to Defined, corresponding to N_NO_DEAD_STRIP (.no_dead_strip in asm)
Fixes PR49276.
can we put this together with the other config init lines around line 969?
edit: ah, I guess it's because Symbol's ctor uses it... a comment would be good. Although -- what do you think about always marking Symbols/InputSections as not-live and then have isLive() check for !config->deadStrip? I guess there'll be a bit more runtime overhead but not sure it'd be significant...
hm I see the other LLD ports have also implemented things this way :/