[LLVMdev] [lld] [mach-o]: RFC: representing LC_REEXPORT_DYLIB

[Tim Northover]

Hi all,

I've been thinking about how best to represent MachO's
LC_REEXPORT_DYLIB (used even by libSystem.dylib to provide its various
sub-components[*]).

It looks like this functionality would naturally fall into the
InputGraph, in analogy with Groups and Archives. Unfortunately, it's
rather more dynamic than the existing cases: we don't know the needed
files before parsing the top-level one, and need to open multiple
files. Essentially, we'd need to create new MachOFileNodes based on
the contents of the parent.

It seems there are two obvious ways to do this:

1. Create them while we still have the MachONormalizedFile around; I
think this would mean extending the InputGraph::parse interface to
allow new InputNodes to be passed back.
2. Add an atom type to represent the dependency and create the actual
nodes when we get back to MachOFileNode::parse.

I'm still very new to lld, so which of these fits in better with our
goals? Or has someone else already thought about it and have a cunning
plan? I'm happy to implement anyone's idea if it's the neatest way to
go.

Cheers.

Tim.

[*] It's the last barrier to "lld -flavor darwin -arch x86_64
-macosx_version_min 10.9 hello_world.o /usr/lib/libSystem.dylib
-ohello_world" working, I think! Using
/usr/lib/system/libsystem_c.dylib already does.