[lld] r231316 - PECOFF: Update comments on .drectve section encoding.

Rui Ueyama ruiu at google.com
Wed Mar 4 15:22:48 PST 2015


Author: ruiu
Date: Wed Mar  4 17:22:48 2015
New Revision: 231316

URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project?rev=231316&view=rev
Log:
PECOFF: Update comments on .drectve section encoding.

Modified:
    lld/trunk/lib/ReaderWriter/PECOFF/ReaderCOFF.cpp

Modified: lld/trunk/lib/ReaderWriter/PECOFF/ReaderCOFF.cpp
URL: http://llvm.org/viewvc/llvm-project/lld/trunk/lib/ReaderWriter/PECOFF/ReaderCOFF.cpp?rev=231316&r1=231315&r2=231316&view=diff
==============================================================================
--- lld/trunk/lib/ReaderWriter/PECOFF/ReaderCOFF.cpp (original)
+++ lld/trunk/lib/ReaderWriter/PECOFF/ReaderCOFF.cpp Wed Mar  4 17:22:48 2015
@@ -1044,12 +1044,10 @@ std::error_code FileCOFF::findSection(St
 // Convert ArrayRef<uint8_t> to std::string. The array contains a string which
 // may not be terminated by NUL.
 StringRef FileCOFF::ArrayRefToString(ArrayRef<uint8_t> array) {
-  // Skip the UTF-8 byte marker if exists. The contents of .drectve section
-  // is, according to the Microsoft PE/COFF spec, encoded as ANSI or UTF-8
-  // with the BOM marker.
-  //
-  // FIXME: I think "ANSI" in the spec means Windows-1252 encoding, which is a
-  // superset of ASCII. We need to convert it to UTF-8.
+  // .drectve sections are encoded in either ASCII or UTF-8 with BOM.
+  // The PE/COFF spec allows ANSI (Windows-1252 encoding), but seems
+  // it's no longer in use.
+  // Skip a UTF-8 byte marker if exists.
   if (array.size() >= 3 && array[0] == 0xEF && array[1] == 0xBB &&
       array[2] == 0xBF) {
     array = array.slice(3);





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