[LLVMdev] [yaml2obj] ELF relocation support

Simon Atanasyan simon at atanasyan.com
Mon Apr 7 12:01:33 PDT 2014


Hi Sean,

On Mon, Apr 7, 2014 at 10:52 PM, Sean Silva <silvas at purdue.edu> wrote:
> I guess I should just pass on my guiding consideration in the design of the
> format: I constantly think about how to find the right balance between
> 1. low-level control over what ends up in the object file (i.e. being able
> to represent most possible ELF files, for obj2yaml eventually to be able to
> output the format)
> 2. readability of the YAML format
> 3. making it hard to create "nonsense" object files (e.g. with indices
> pointing out of range, missing SHT_NULL, global and local symbols out of
> order, etc.)
> 4. Sticking close to the spec

Please take a look at this review. I have got an approval from
Michael. Do you have any objections, comments etc?

http://reviews.llvm.org/D3302

-- 
Simon Atanasyan



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