[PATCH] D62350: [wip] ELF: Create synthetic sections for loadable partitions.

[Peter Collingbourne via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

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Comment at: lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h:1127
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+inline Partition &mainPartition() { return Partitions[0]; }
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ruiu wrote:
> grimar wrote:
> > What about having one more global pointer instead.
> > i.e. after creating all of the partitions do:
> > 
> > ```
> > Partition *InM; //global, like `In`
> > 
> > ...
> > 
> > InM = &Partitions[0];
> > ```
> > 
> > And then use `InM` everywhere instead of `mainPartition`.
> > I wonder what others think though.
> > 
> Yeah. Looks like this function doesn't have to be a function. I thought for a while about what kind of name I'd choose, but I didn't come up with a good idea. Calling Partitions[0] as In might not be a bad idea. It's short, and we don't need to update all `In`s with `mainPartition()` which makes this patch much easier to read.
It won't work to name it `In` because we already have a variable named `In`. I think that we'll always have a variable for per-file synthetic sections because some sections (such as the static symbol table) will not be duplicated between partitions.

In an earlier version of this change I had a global variable
```
static Partition &Main = Partitions[0];
```
but this won't work now that `Partitions` is a vector and not an array. That's why I introduced the function.

I'm fine with the idea of bringing the variable back (as a pointer rather than a reference) and setting it once all partitions are created. I'll call it `Main` unless there are any strong objections to that name.


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