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Originally, the intent behind symtab was to represent the symbol table seen in the PE header (without applying ARM64X relocations). However, in most cases outside of `writeHeader()`, the code references either both symbol tables or only the EC one, for example, `mainSymtab` in `linkerMain()` maps to `hybridSymtab` on ARM64X. MSVC's link.exe allows pure ARM64EC images to include native ARM64 files. This patch prepares LLD to support the same, which will require `hybridSymtab` to be available even for ARM64EC. At that point, `writeHeader()` will need to use the EC symbol table, and the original reasoning for keeping it in `hybridSymtab` no longer applies. Given this, it seems cleaner to treat the EC symbol table as the “main” one, assigning it to `symtab`, and use `hybridSymtab` for the native symbol table instead. Since `writeHeader()` will need to be conditional anyway, this change simplifies the rest of the code by allowing other parts to consistently treat `ctx.symtab` as the main symbol table. As a further simplification, this also allows us to eliminate `symtabEC` and use `symtab` directly; I’ll submit that as a separate PR. The map file now uses the EC symbol table for printed entry points and exports, matching MSVC behavior.
LLVM Linker (lld)
This directory and its subdirectories contain source code for the LLVM Linker, a modular cross platform linker which is built as part of the LLVM compiler infrastructure project.
lld is open source software. You may freely distribute it under the terms of the license agreement found in LICENSE.txt.
Benchmarking
In order to make sure various developers can evaluate patches over the same tests, we create a collection of self contained programs.
It is hosted at https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/linker-tests/lld-speed-test.tar.xz
The current sha256 is 10eec685463d5a8bbf08d77f4ca96282161d396c65bd97dc99dbde644a31610f.