<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_extra"><div class="gmail_quote">On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 8:22 PM, Mehdi Amini <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mehdi.amini@apple.com" target="_blank">mehdi.amini@apple.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><span class=""><br>
> On Oct 18, 2016, at 6:44 PM, Rui Ueyama via llvm-dev <<a href="mailto:llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org">llvm-dev@lists.llvm.org</a>> wrote:<br>
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> I'd like to make LLD embed version information so that we can determine if an executable was created by LLD and if that's the case which version of LLD.<br>
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</span>Pardon my ignorance, but what’s the motivation?<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>It should make trouble shooting linker issues easier. Here are a few scenarios.</div><div><br></div><div>Scenario 1: you added -fuse-ld=lld to your command line, but you are suspecting that the option is ignored. Currently, it's actually surprisingly hard to tell if an output was created by LLD.</div><div><br></div><div>Scenario 2: someone reported an issue about an executable linked by LLD, and we know that version X has a similar bug, then the first thing we want to do is to check if the executable was created with version X.</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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We don’t embed the clang version in every binary clang generates for instance.<br>
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> ld.bfd doesn't seem to embed any information, so we cannot tell whether an executable was linked by ld.bfd or not easily.<br>
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> ld.gold embeds a string "GNU gold <version>" as ".note.gnu.gold-version" section contents.<br>
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> I'm wondering what we should do for LLD. The gold's way seems almost right, but I think we don't want to use the same section name because it contains "gold" as part of the section name. However, at the same time, I don't believe we want to create ".note.gnu.lld-version", because if we do, all programs that determine linker version need to look at ".note.gnu.<linker-name>-<wbr>version" for all known linkers. That's absurd. (Also, our product is not GNU, so ".gnu" part is probably irrelevant.)<br>
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> I'm leaning towards ".note.linker-version" in hope that other linkers follow it.<br>
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</span>At least that would look much better than a .gnu.xxxx<br>
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<span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">Mehdi<br>
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