[PATCH] D41735: Use uint64_t to store the ELF sh_entsize field.

[Rafael Avila de Espindola via llvm-commits]

"Davis, Matthew" <Matthew.Davis at sony.com> writes:

> Hi Rafael,
> Thanks for your response.
>
>> From: Rafael Avila de Espindola [mailto:rafael.espindola at gmail.com]
>> Sent: Friday, January 5, 2018 8:13 AM
>> Subject: Re: [PATCH] D41735: Use uint64_t to store the ELF sh_entsize field.
>> 
>> Do you have a need for such a large entsize? If not I would suggest producing an
>> error saying that we don't support it.
>
> My intention for representing the sh_entsize field of an ELF section header
> as uint64_t is to maintain consistency between the elf.h representation, 
> which uses Elf64_Xword for 64bit ELFs, and can consequentially also hold
> the max value for a 32bit ELF. LLVM already represents the sh_size field 
> as a 64bit value for the section header.  Is there some limitation 
> that would prevent us from having such large sh_entsize fields for 64bit ELFs?

I am not sure if any linker supports this. It is hard to imagine the use
for having a linker merge sections where each entry is over 4GB.

Cheers,
Rafael