gecko-dev/build/unix/elfhack
Mike Hommey 8bb6a1a03e Bug 1423821 - Add a consistency check for section offsets to elfhack. r=froydnj
lld is being too smart for its own good, and places non-relocatable data
right after the program headers, which prevents the program headers from
growing. But elfhack wasn't checking for that, so happily placed the
non-relocatable data at its non-relocated location, overwriting the last
item of the program headers.

--HG--
extra : rebase_source : 6f26d475f0a19d88ddf21399dbce8ceac62b492d
2017-12-07 15:34:58 +09:00
..
inject Bug 1407388 - Remove build/unix/elfhack/inject/Makefile.in and replace with generated files. r=mshal 2017-11-07 16:54:22 -08:00
Makefile.in Bug 1403346 - Implement cflags filtering for elfhack in mozbuild COMPILE_FLAGS r=glandium 2017-10-25 15:12:10 -07:00
README
dummy.c
elf.cpp Bug 1423821 - Add a consistency check for section offsets to elfhack. r=froydnj 2017-12-07 15:34:58 +09:00
elfhack.cpp Bug 1423813 - Properly handle elfhack -r after bug 1385783. r=froydnj 2017-12-07 15:22:22 +09:00
elfxx.h Bug 1423813 - Properly handle elfhack -r after bug 1385783. r=froydnj 2017-12-07 15:22:22 +09:00
inject.c Bug 635961 - Allow elfhack to relocate data under the GNU_RELRO segment. r=froydnj 2017-07-11 07:41:07 +09:00
moz.build Bug 1403346 - Implement cflags filtering for elfhack in mozbuild COMPILE_FLAGS r=glandium 2017-10-25 15:12:10 -07:00
test-array.c
test-ctors.c
test.c Bug 1385117 - Make the bss section of the elfhack testcase large enough. r=froydnj 2017-07-28 07:15:39 +09:00

README

Elfhack is a program to optimize ELF binaries for size and cold startup
speed.

Presently, it is quite experimental, though it works well for the target
it was created for: Firefox's libxul.so.

Elfhack currently only does one thing: packing dynamic relocations ;
which ends up being a quite complex task, that can be summarized this
way:
- Remove RELATIVE relocations from the .rel.dyn/.rela.dyn section.
- Inject a small code able to apply relative relocations "by hand"
  after the .rel.dyn/.rela.dyn section.
- Inject a section containing relocative relocations in a different
  and more packed format, after the small code.
- Register the small code as DT_INIT function. Make the small code call
  what was initially the DT_INIT function, if there was one.
- Remove the hole between the new section containing relative
  relocations and the following sections, adjusting offsets and base
  addresses accordingly.
- Adjust PT_LOAD entries to fit new offsets, and add an additional
  PT_LOAD entry when that is necessary to handle the discrepancy between
  offsets and base addresses, meaning the section offsets may yet again
  need adjustments.
- Adjust various DT_* dynamic tags to fit the new ELF layout.
- Adjust section headers.
- Adjust ELF headers.

See http://glandium.org/blog/?p=1177#relocations for some figures.