[lld] [lld][COFF][NFC] Factor out exception table sorting. (PR #72518)

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Author: Jacek Caban (cjacek)

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This is a preparation for ARM64EC support, which needs to sort both ARM and x86_64 tables separately.

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Full diff: https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/72518.diff


1 Files Affected:

- (modified) lld/COFF/Writer.cpp (+33-24) 


``````````diff
diff --git a/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp b/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
index 0477c094c0ac82c..76c9b7604021f17 100644
--- a/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
+++ b/lld/COFF/Writer.cpp
@@ -247,7 +247,8 @@ class Writer {
   void writeBuildId();
   void writePEChecksum();
   void sortSections();
-  void sortExceptionTable();
+  template <typename T> void sortExceptionTable(Chunk *first, Chunk *last);
+  void sortExceptionTables();
   void sortCRTSectionChunks(std::vector<Chunk *> &chunks);
   void addSyntheticIdata();
   void sortBySectionOrder(std::vector<Chunk *> &chunks);
@@ -751,7 +752,7 @@ void Writer::run() {
     }
     writeSections();
     prepareLoadConfig();
-    sortExceptionTable();
+    sortExceptionTables();
 
     // Fix up the alignment in the TLS Directory's characteristic field,
     // if a specific alignment value is needed
@@ -2164,41 +2165,49 @@ void Writer::writeBuildId() {
 }
 
 // Sort .pdata section contents according to PE/COFF spec 5.5.
-void Writer::sortExceptionTable() {
-  if (!firstPdata)
+template <typename T>
+void Writer::sortExceptionTable(Chunk *first, Chunk *last) {
+  if (!first)
     return;
-  llvm::TimeTraceScope timeScope("Sort exception table");
   // We assume .pdata contains function table entries only.
+
   auto bufAddr = [&](Chunk *c) {
     OutputSection *os = ctx.getOutputSection(c);
     return buffer->getBufferStart() + os->getFileOff() + c->getRVA() -
            os->getRVA();
   };
-  uint8_t *begin = bufAddr(firstPdata);
-  uint8_t *end = bufAddr(lastPdata) + lastPdata->getSize();
+  uint8_t *begin = bufAddr(first);
+  uint8_t *end = bufAddr(last) + last->getSize();
+  if ((end - begin) % sizeof(T) != 0) {
+    fatal("unexpected .pdata size: " + Twine(end - begin) +
+          " is not a multiple of " + Twine(sizeof(T)));
+  }
+
+  parallelSort(MutableArrayRef<T>((T *)begin, (T *)end),
+               [](const T &a, const T &b) { return a.begin < b.begin; });
+}
+
+// Sort .pdata section contents according to PE/COFF spec 5.5.
+void Writer::sortExceptionTables() {
+  llvm::TimeTraceScope timeScope("Sort exception table");
+
+  struct EntryX64 {
+    ulittle32_t begin, end, unwind;
+  };
+  struct EntryArm {
+    ulittle32_t begin, unwind;
+  };
+
   if (ctx.config.machine == AMD64) {
-    struct Entry { ulittle32_t begin, end, unwind; };
-    if ((end - begin) % sizeof(Entry) != 0) {
-      fatal("unexpected .pdata size: " + Twine(end - begin) +
-            " is not a multiple of " + Twine(sizeof(Entry)));
-    }
-    parallelSort(
-        MutableArrayRef<Entry>((Entry *)begin, (Entry *)end),
-        [](const Entry &a, const Entry &b) { return a.begin < b.begin; });
+    sortExceptionTable<EntryX64>(firstPdata, lastPdata);
     return;
   }
   if (ctx.config.machine == ARMNT || ctx.config.machine == ARM64) {
-    struct Entry { ulittle32_t begin, unwind; };
-    if ((end - begin) % sizeof(Entry) != 0) {
-      fatal("unexpected .pdata size: " + Twine(end - begin) +
-            " is not a multiple of " + Twine(sizeof(Entry)));
-    }
-    parallelSort(
-        MutableArrayRef<Entry>((Entry *)begin, (Entry *)end),
-        [](const Entry &a, const Entry &b) { return a.begin < b.begin; });
+    sortExceptionTable<EntryArm>(firstPdata, lastPdata);
     return;
   }
-  lld::errs() << "warning: don't know how to handle .pdata.\n";
+  if (firstPdata)
+    lld::errs() << "warning: don't know how to handle .pdata.\n";
 }
 
 // The CRT section contains, among other things, the array of function

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https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/72518