[LLVMdev] Fix crash in gold LTO plugin
Nick Lewycky
nicholas at mxc.ca
Tue Jul 26 01:42:15 PDT 2011
Todd Jackson wrote:
> While doing research using the LLVM link time optimizer, we discovered
> a bug in the LTO plugin. After running the passes, the plugin tries to
> tell gold about 0 symbols produced from a bitcode file, indexing an
> empty vector in the expression&I->syms[0]. We're not completely sure
> if this is the best patch or if it is a symptom of a larger problem,
> but it worked for us. When we found this, all of the input bitcode
> files had at least one symbol before running passes.
>
> The attached patch for 2.9 places a guard around the calls to the
> add_symbols plugin
> callback to only report symbols when the vector of symbols in the
> claimed_file is nonempty.
>
> Full credit for discovery and the patch goes to Jeffrey Bosboom.
Thanks! Fixed in r136066.
I chose to use if (...) continue; instead, just to keep the indentation
depth low.
Nick
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