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This change adds a new compiler flag that can help reduce the size of ELF binaries that contain many functions. By default, when enabling function sections (which is the default for most targets), the LLVM backend will generate different section names for each function. For example, a function "func" would generate a section called ".text.func". Normally this is fine because the linker will merge all those sections into a single one in the binary. However, starting with LLVM 12 (llvm/llvm-project@ee5d1a0), the backend will also generate unique section names for exception handling, resulting in thousands of ".gcc_except_table.*" sections ending up in the final binary because some linkers don't currently merge or strip these EH sections. This can bloat the ELF headers and string table significantly in binaries that contain many functions. The new option is analogous to Clang's -fno-unique-section-names, and instructs LLVM to generate the same ".text" and ".gcc_except_table" section for each function, resulting in smaller object files and potentially a smaller final binary. |
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This directory currently contains some LLVM support code. This will generally be sent upstream to LLVM in time; for now it lives here. NOTE: the LLVM C++ ABI is subject to between-version breakage and must *never* be exposed to Rust. To allow for easy auditing of that, all Rust-exposed types must be typedef-ed as "LLVMXyz", or "LLVMRustXyz" if they were defined here. Functions that return a failure status and leave the error in the LLVM last error should return an LLVMRustResult rather than an int or anything to avoid confusion. When translating enums, add a single `Other` variant as the first one to allow for new variants to be added. It should abort when used as an input. All other types must not be typedef-ed as such.