[llvm-dev] Building an array in a section from multiple object files

[Peter Collingbourne via llvm-dev]

If you give your section a valid C identifier name, i.e. something like
"xray_instr_map" (no period), the linker will synthesize symbols named
"__start_xray_instr_map" and "__stop_xray_instr_map", which will point to
the start and end of the combined section.

Peter

On Thu, Jun 23, 2016 at 10:26 AM, Dean Michael Berris via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> As part of working on XRay, I'm trying to accomplish the following: create
> a section that contains an array of entries pertaining to the
> instrumentation map (nop sleds) in an object file, and have those merged
> into a single section in the final binary where the contents are
> concatenated. The trick though is I'd like to be able to reference the
> whole array with a single symbol (or two, one to mark the start and the
> other to mark the end). I'm trying to get this to work initially on x86 and
> Linux (ELF).
>
> What I've got currently in http://reviews.llvm.org/D19904 creates this
> section (.xray_instr_map) and defines two globals in that section named
> "__xray_instr_map" and "__xray_instr_map_end". The problem inevitably with
> this approach is that having multiple object files have these definitions
> cause issues with multiple definition violations at link time.
>
> I *think* the solution involves having COMDAT sections per-function that
> has the instrumentation points, then have those concatenated into a single
> .xray_instr_map section.
>
> What I'm not sure about is how to define the "__xray_instr_map" and
> "__xray_instr_map" symbols such that they refer to the contents of the
> section in the final binary.
>
> Thoughts?
>
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