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[ELF] Show error location for 'undefined symbol' errors
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Authored by evgeny777 on Oct 20 2016, 7:10 AM.

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Summary

The 'undefined symbol' is likely most common linker error, so linker typically show some location information
to make identifying problem source easier. With this patch lld will show following information about error source:

  • Source file name in case STT_FILE symbol is present in object file
  • Function name, if it can be retrieved.
  • section name + offset

In addition to this ld/gold can show line number if debug info is present. This is the next thing I plan to do.

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evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75294.Oct 20 2016, 7:10 AM
evgeny777 retitled this revision from to [ELF] Show error location for 'undefined symbol' errors.
evgeny777 updated this object.
evgeny777 added reviewers: ruiu, rafael.
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evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75298.Oct 20 2016, 7:57 AM
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Fixed memory corruption

grimar added inline comments.Oct 20 2016, 8:10 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
423

May be

if (!D || D->Section != S)
ELF/Relocations.cpp
544

Looks you do not need .str() here.

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 20 2016, 8:13 AM
ELF/Relocations.cpp
544

Yes, I do. The type of expression is llvm::Twine because of S.Name and Twine::utohexstr(Offset)

ruiu edited edge metadata.Oct 20 2016, 11:47 AM

Thank you for doing this. This would be very useful.

ELF/Error.cpp
47

I think I'm inclined to showing ARGV[0] even for undefined symbol errors to keep them consistent with other linker-issued errors. I do not see a reason to not do except for making error lines a bit shorter.

ELF/InputFiles.cpp
417

A brief comment would be appreciated. Please note that this is not an optimized function but it is okay because this is for creating an error message.

419

This function can be implemented as a non-member function, no? Non-member functions are preferred over member functions if they access only public members.

421–423
for (...)
   if (auto *D = ...)
     if (D->Value <= ...)
        return D;
return nullptr;
ELF/InputFiles.h
178–179

I'd make SourceFile a public member variable and remove the accessor, as the accessor doesn't contain a logic.

182

Probably a personal taste, but how about getSymbolAt?

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 20 2016, 11:57 AM
ELF/Error.cpp
47

No problem, but you'll get both path to linker and path to file in a single error message. Isn't this confusing? BTW ld and gold don't show argv0 for this error type.

ruiu added inline comments.Oct 20 2016, 12:56 PM
ELF/Error.cpp
47

Clang doesn't seem to print out a full path but instead of the last path component (so it prints out "clang-4.0" instead of "/foo/bar/clang-4.0"). We might want to do the same. But for now I think we want to handle all errors in the same way. We can tweak later if we want it.

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 2:07 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
419

No, it can't. It iterates SymbolBodies, which is member variable.

evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75400.Oct 21 2016, 2:53 AM
evgeny777 edited edge metadata.

Addressed review comments

evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75427.Oct 21 2016, 7:43 AM

Added debugging information parser. See undef.s and undef-debug.s for test case.
Let me know if separate review required for this.

grimar added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 8:04 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
60

I wonder if this class can be not templated.
You probably can pass uint64_t Addr and DILineInfo &LineInfo only.

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 8:11 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
60

I was thinking about this also, but I need ObjectFile<ELFT> to construct object::ObjectFile. Also I need to know endianess and pointer size.

evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75437.Oct 21 2016, 8:43 AM

Code cleanups

ruiu added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 11:01 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
419

But you can use ObjectFile::getSymbols() instead, no?

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 11:05 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
419

Makes sense. May be also move it to Relocations.cpp?

ruiu added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 11:06 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
419

Yeah, I'd do that and make this a static function.

ruiu added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 12:43 PM
ELF/InputFiles.h
50

I think this is too smart, at least as the initial implementation. This function is run only when an error occurs, and for error cases, we don't pursue performance. Instead I'd like to keep it simple as possible. So, could you please remove this class and define a non-member function? I think it is okay to parse debug info for each error message.

ELF/Relocations.cpp
563–565

Now that you can just concatenate strings before passing to the functions.

warn(Location + ": " + Msg);
error(Location + ": " + Msg);

So I think you don't need to add new overloaded functions to error.cpp.

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 1:46 PM
ELF/Relocations.cpp
563–565

Actually location and message are separated by message type, i.e:

<Location> : warning : <Msg>
ruiu added inline comments.Oct 21 2016, 2:18 PM
ELF/Relocations.cpp
563–565

Did you have a reason to break consistency that way here?

evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 22 2016, 2:08 AM
ELF/InputFiles.h
50

could you please remove this class

I really really wouldn't like to do this. The main reason is that LLVM DWARF parser is very slow (main reason why lldb is so slow). If you want the numbers, here they are:

command (reports about 3K errors):

ld.lld LoopConvertCheck.cpp.o -o a.out

time w/o caching: 3m31.165s
time with caching: 0m1.659s

This is release build of lld on i7-2600K / SSD
Debug build had worked over 15 minutes, before I terminated it with Ctrl-C

May be it's better to simplify DIHelper somehow?

evgeny777 updated this revision to Diff 75682.Oct 25 2016, 4:26 AM

Addressed review comments

rafael accepted this revision.Oct 25 2016, 5:34 AM
rafael edited edge metadata.

This is awesome.

Fine by me with a nit, but please wait for Rui to LGTM too.

ELF/InputFiles.cpp
64

Can you move the call to getLineTable to the constructor and cache LineTbl?

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.Oct 25 2016, 5:34 AM
evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 25 2016, 5:40 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
64

Yes, it's possible to make LineTbl a member variable (together with DwarfLine), but getLineTable(Offset) is actually very fast. It's a single lookup in std::map with one element.

ruiu accepted this revision.Oct 25 2016, 10:41 AM
ruiu edited edge metadata.

LGTM with nits.

ELF/InputFiles.cpp
46

lineData -> LineData

55

Use unique_ptr to remove this dtor.

58–59

nit: move them after if (!DrawfLine) return "" so that we won't instantiate them if we return early.

ELF/Relocations.cpp
557–561
std::string Msg = getLocation(...) + ": undefined symbol: '" + ...
evgeny777 added inline comments.Oct 25 2016, 11:08 AM
ELF/InputFiles.cpp
55

It's not possible unless you include DWARFContext.h to InputFiles.h or override unique_ptr deleter (second template parameter). Is this better?

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