[PATCH] D102281: [lld][WebAssembly] Allow data symbols to extend past end of segment

[Sam Clegg via Phabricator via llvm-commits]

sbc100 added a comment.

In D102281#2752454 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D102281#2752454>, @dschuff wrote:

> I'm not sure I understand what the description means, in particular how null-termination is related to the symbol extending past the end of the segment. (more generally I guess I don't understand why we want to allow symbols to extend past the end).

Each data symbol has a give size, but string tail merging ignores that an will treat each string as NULL terminated.    In this example the symbol bar is of size 6   string merging removes the trailing 3 chars which are essentially unreachable but the symbol still has a size of 6 in the symbol table.   Since its at the end of the section it end up being reports has overlapping the end of the section by 3 bytes... at least according the the size in the symbol table.  I've verified the ELF does the same thing.


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