[PATCH] D22116: [ELF] Support for setting the base address

[Rafael Espíndola via llvm-commits]

On 8 July 2016 at 14:33, Petr Hosek via llvm-commits
<llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> phosek added a comment.
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> There are two issues here. The first is correctness, and you're right that for lld `-Trodata-segment` as an option for setting the start address would be better since lld puts rodata segment at the beginning. The other is compatibility, as large number of existing build scripts use `-Ttext-segment` as an option for setting the start address, irrespective of which linker is being used.

I see, so what you base is an option to set the smallest used virtual address.


> In our use case, we would like to have an option to set the start address in lld. Would it be fine with you if I rename the option to `-image-base`? This option is already supported by BFD ld, even though it's only used for PE targets, and OS X ld also has a similar option `-image_base`. Alternatively we could use a completely different name.

Rui, is there something like that for COFF? image-base is a COFF term, no?

Another option name would be -Tbase, or -Tfirst_segment since the
other options are -Txyz.

Taking a look a the patch itself.

Cheers,
Rafael