[llvm] [llvm-objcopy][COFF] Support --rename-section (PR #210573)

James Henderson via llvm-commits llvm-commits at lists.llvm.org
Mon Jul 20 00:11:06 PDT 2026


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+## Long section names (>8 bytes) go into the COFF string table.
+
+# RUN: yaml2obj %s -o %t
+# RUN: llvm-objcopy --rename-section=.text=.longsectionname %t %t2
+# RUN: llvm-readobj --sections --symbols --string-table %t2 | FileCheck %s
+
+--- !COFF
+header:
+  Machine:         IMAGE_FILE_MACHINE_AMD64
+  Characteristics: [ ]
+sections:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Characteristics: [ IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE, IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ ]
+    Alignment:       16
+    SectionData:     '90'
+symbols:
+  - Name:            .text
+    Value:           0
+    SectionNumber:   1
+    SimpleType:      IMAGE_SYM_TYPE_NULL
+    ComplexType:     IMAGE_SYM_DTYPE_NULL
+    StorageClass:    IMAGE_SYM_CLASS_STATIC
+    SectionDefinition:
+      Length:          1
+      NumberOfRelocations: 0
+      NumberOfLinenumbers: 0
+      CheckSum:        0
+      Number:          1
+...
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .longsectionname
+# CHECK:      Characteristics [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   IMAGE_SCN_ALIGN_16BYTES
+# CHECK-NEXT:   IMAGE_SCN_CNT_CODE
+# CHECK-NEXT:   IMAGE_SCN_MEM_EXECUTE
+# CHECK-NEXT:   IMAGE_SCN_MEM_READ
+# CHECK-NEXT: ]
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .longsectionname
+# CHECK-NEXT: Value: 0
+# CHECK-NEXT: Section: .longsectionname
+
+# CHECK:      StringTable {
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jh7370 wrote:

Is there anything else in the string table? If not, can we check the entire contents to show there's no garbage in there?

Can we also have a test case that goes from a long to a short name and show that the old name is no longer in the table?

https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/pull/210573


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