[PATCH] ppc64: Avoid copy relocs also in named rodata sections

[Ulrich Weigand]

Hi Bill,

in r181723 you fixed LLVM to move initialized constants needing relocation
to the .data.rel.ro section instead of .rodata, which is necessary to avoid
invalid copy relocs:
http://lists.cs.uiuc.edu/pipermail/llvm-commits/Week-of-Mon-20130513/174260.html


This is good as far as it goes, but due to checks like this:

+  if (DefaultSection != ReadOnlySection)
+    return DefaultSection;

your patch only triggers if the constant resides in *the* main .rodata
section.   However, constants may also reside in *named* .rodata.XXX
sections, which need the same treatment (i.e. use .data.rel.ro.XXX
instead).

The appended patch fixes this by applying the check on "Kind" *before*
calling the default SelectSectionForGlobal routine, instead of checking on
the section returned by the default routine.
(See attached file: diff-llvm-ppc64-vtable-reloc)

This fixes a number of failing test cases on my system, where due to a
LD_LIBRARY_PATH setting, the version of libstdc++.so found at run time is
more recent than the version found by LLVM at compile time.  (This setup
ought to work fine since the library is upwards compatible.  However, this
fails with an ld.so error when there are copy relocs on FUNC symbols, which
we get when vtable constants are placed in a named .rodata section ...)

Does this look OK?


Mit freundlichen Gruessen / Best Regards

Ulrich Weigand

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