[PATCH] D126950: [lld][WebAssembly] Retain data segments referenced via __start/__stop

Yuta Saito via Phabricator via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Fri Jun 3 20:06:05 PDT 2022


kateinoigakukun added a comment.

In D126950#3558023 <https://reviews.llvm.org/D126950#3558023>, @MaskRay wrote:

>> As well as ELF linker does, retain all data segments named X referenced through __start_X or __stop_X.
>
> lld doesn't do this by default. This behavior requires `-z nostart-stop-gc`.
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> Not force retaining `X` allows fine-grained GC of metadata sections: https://maskray.me/blog/2021-01-31-metadata-sections-comdat-and-shf-link-order

Ah right, so my description is valid with GNU ld sorry. I'm going to add the option and make it default in wasm-ld.


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