[PATCH] D35395: ELF: Reword a somewhat misleading error message.

Peter Collingbourne via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Thu Jul 13 17:14:01 PDT 2017


pcc created this revision.
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PT_TLS is a type of program header, so we wouldn't expect to see
one in an object file. This error should probably be referring to
the fact that we didn't see a section with the flag SHF_TLS, which
would normally cause us to create a PT_TLS program header.


https://reviews.llvm.org/D35395

Files:
  lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
  lld/test/ELF/invalid/tls-symbol.s


Index: lld/test/ELF/invalid/tls-symbol.s
===================================================================
--- lld/test/ELF/invalid/tls-symbol.s
+++ lld/test/ELF/invalid/tls-symbol.s
@@ -1,5 +1,5 @@
 # REQUIRES: x86
 
-## The test file contains a STT_TLS symbol but has no TLS section.
+## The test file contains an STT_TLS symbol but has no TLS section.
 # RUN: not ld.lld %S/Inputs/tls-symbol.elf -o %t 2>&1 | FileCheck %s
-# CHECK: has a STT_TLS symbol but doesn't have a PT_TLS section
+# CHECK: has an STT_TLS symbol but doesn't have an SHF_TLS section
Index: lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
===================================================================
--- lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
+++ lld/ELF/Symbols.cpp
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@
     if (D.isTls() && !Config->Relocatable) {
       if (!Out::TlsPhdr)
         fatal(toString(D.File) +
-              " has a STT_TLS symbol but doesn't have a PT_TLS section");
+              " has an STT_TLS symbol but doesn't have an SHF_TLS section");
       return VA - Out::TlsPhdr->p_vaddr;
     }
     return VA;


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