[llvm-dev] LLD: creating linker-generated sections as input sections instead of output sections

[Eugene Leviant via llvm-dev]

https://reviews.llvm.org/D25627

The amount of code changes is overwhelming, so I started from
converting just .got and .got.plt sections.

2016-10-22 1:22 GMT+03:00 Rui Ueyama <ruiu at google.com>:
> I tried but couldn't create a satisfactory change. Currently all the code
> depend on the fact that all ELFT-typed input sections are backed by actual
> files. We need to relax it, but in the end I had to modify too many places,
> so I abandoned that change. I don't want to make the class hierarchy too
> deep, so maybe we should move more functionality to the base class. We might
> also want to make some functions in InputSections virtual, but I'm not sure
> about that yet.
>
> I don't have time to work on it for a few days, so if you want to do it,
> please go ahead to try.
>
> On Fri, Oct 21, 2016 at 7:51 AM, George Rimar <grimar at accesssoftek.com>
> wrote:
>>
>> > Is anyone already working on it? If not then I can take this task.
>>
>> Me - not.
>>
>> George.
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