Add --section-ordering command line option to the bfd linker.
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1 /* ld.h -- general linker header file
2 Copyright (C) 1991-2024 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This file is part of the GNU Binutils.
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18 Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street - Fifth Floor, Boston,
19 MA 02110-1301, USA. */
21 #ifndef LD_H
22 #define LD_H
24 #ifndef SEEK_CUR
25 #define SEEK_CUR 1
26 #endif
27 #ifndef SEEK_END
28 #define SEEK_END 2
29 #endif
31 #ifndef ENABLE_NLS
32 /* The Solaris version of locale.h always includes libintl.h. If we have
33 been configured with --disable-nls then ENABLE_NLS will not be defined
34 and the dummy definitions of bindtextdomain (et al) below will conflict
35 with the defintions in libintl.h. So we define these values to prevent
36 the bogus inclusion of libintl.h. */
37 # define _LIBINTL_H
38 # define _LIBGETTEXT_H
39 #endif
40 #include <locale.h>
42 #ifdef ENABLE_NLS
43 # include <libintl.h>
44 # define _(String) gettext (String)
45 # ifdef gettext_noop
46 # define N_(String) gettext_noop (String)
47 # else
48 # define N_(String) (String)
49 # endif
50 #else
51 # define gettext(Msgid) (Msgid)
52 # define dgettext(Domainname, Msgid) (Msgid)
53 # define dcgettext(Domainname, Msgid, Category) (Msgid)
54 # define ngettext(Msgid1, Msgid2, n) \
55 (n == 1 ? Msgid1 : Msgid2)
56 # define dngettext(Domainname, Msgid1, Msgid2, n) \
57 (n == 1 ? Msgid1 : Msgid2)
58 # define dcngettext(Domainname, Msgid1, Msgid2, n, Category) \
59 (n == 1 ? Msgid1 : Msgid2)
60 # define textdomain(Domainname) do {} while (0)
61 # define bindtextdomain(Domainname, Dirname) do {} while (0)
62 # define _(String) (String)
63 # define N_(String) (String)
64 #endif
66 /* Look in this environment name for the linker to pretend to be */
67 #define EMULATION_ENVIRON "LDEMULATION"
68 /* If in there look for the strings: */
70 /* Look in this variable for a target format */
71 #define TARGET_ENVIRON "GNUTARGET"
73 /* Input sections which are put in a section of this name are actually
74 discarded. */
75 #define DISCARD_SECTION_NAME "/DISCARD/"
77 /* A file name list. */
78 typedef struct name_list
80 const char *name;
81 struct name_list *next;
83 name_list;
85 typedef enum {sort_none, sort_ascending, sort_descending} sort_order;
87 /* A wildcard specification. */
89 typedef enum
91 none, by_name, by_alignment, by_name_alignment, by_alignment_name,
92 by_none, by_init_priority
93 } sort_type;
95 extern sort_type sort_section;
97 struct wildcard_spec
99 const char * name;
100 struct name_list * exclude_name_list;
101 struct flag_info * section_flag_list;
102 size_t namelen;
103 size_t prefixlen;
104 size_t suffixlen;
105 sort_type sorted;
106 bool reversed;
109 struct wildcard_list
111 struct wildcard_list *next;
112 struct wildcard_spec spec;
115 #define BYTE_SIZE (1)
116 #define SHORT_SIZE (2)
117 #define LONG_SIZE (4)
118 #define QUAD_SIZE (8)
120 enum endian_enum { ENDIAN_UNSET = 0, ENDIAN_BIG, ENDIAN_LITTLE };
122 typedef struct
124 /* 1 => assign space to common symbols even if `relocatable_output'. */
125 bool force_common_definition;
127 /* If TRUE, build MIPS embedded PIC relocation tables in the output
128 file. */
129 bool embedded_relocs;
131 /* If TRUE, force generation of a file with a .exe file. */
132 bool force_exe_suffix;
134 /* If TRUE, generate a cross reference report. */
135 bool cref;
137 /* If TRUE (which is the default), warn about mismatched input
138 files. */
139 bool warn_mismatch;
141 /* Warn on attempting to open an incompatible library during a library
142 search. */
143 bool warn_search_mismatch;
145 /* If non-zero check section addresses, once computed,
146 for overlaps. Relocatable links only check when this is > 0. */
147 signed char check_section_addresses;
149 /* If TRUE allow the linking of input files in an unknown architecture
150 assuming that the user knows what they are doing. This was the old
151 behaviour of the linker. The new default behaviour is to reject such
152 input files. */
153 bool accept_unknown_input_arch;
155 /* Name of the import library to generate. */
156 char *out_implib_filename;
158 /* If TRUE we'll just print the default output on stdout. */
159 bool print_output_format;
161 /* If set, display the target memory usage (per memory region). */
162 bool print_memory_usage;
164 /* Should we force section groups to be resolved? Controlled with
165 --force-group-allocation on the command line or FORCE_GROUP_ALLOCATION
166 in the linker script. */
167 bool force_group_allocation;
169 /* Big or little endian as set on command line. */
170 enum endian_enum endian;
172 /* Name of runtime interpreter to invoke. */
173 char *interpreter;
175 /* Name to give runtime library from the -soname argument. */
176 char *soname;
178 /* Runtime library search path from the -rpath argument. */
179 char *rpath;
181 /* Link time runtime library search path from the -rpath-link
182 argument. */
183 char *rpath_link;
185 /* Name of shared object whose symbol table should be filtered with
186 this shared object. From the --filter option. */
187 char *filter_shlib;
189 /* Name of shared object for whose symbol table this shared object
190 is an auxiliary filter. From the --auxiliary option. */
191 char **auxiliary_filters;
193 /* A version symbol to be applied to the symbol names found in the
194 .exports sections. */
195 char *version_exports_section;
197 /* Default linker script. */
198 char *default_script;
200 /* Linker script fragment provided by the --section-order command line option. */
201 char *section_ordering_file;
202 } args_type;
204 extern args_type command_line;
206 typedef int token_code_type;
208 /* Different ways we can handle orphan sections. */
210 enum orphan_handling_enum
212 /* The classic strategy, find a suitable section to place the orphan
213 into. */
214 orphan_handling_place = 0,
216 /* Discard any orphan sections as though they were assign to the section
217 /DISCARD/. */
218 orphan_handling_discard,
220 /* Find somewhere to place the orphan section, as with
221 ORPHAN_HANDLING_PLACE, but also issue a warning. */
222 orphan_handling_warn,
224 /* Issue a fatal error if any orphan sections are found. */
225 orphan_handling_error,
228 typedef struct
230 bool magic_demand_paged;
231 bool make_executable;
233 /* If TRUE, -shared is supported. */
234 /* ??? A better way to do this is perhaps to define this in the
235 ld_emulation_xfer_struct since this is really a target dependent
236 parameter. */
237 bool has_shared;
239 /* If TRUE, build constructors. */
240 bool build_constructors;
242 /* If TRUE, warn about any constructors. */
243 bool warn_constructors;
245 /* If TRUE, warn about merging common symbols with others. */
246 bool warn_common;
248 /* If TRUE, only warn once about a particular undefined symbol. */
249 bool warn_once;
251 /* How should we deal with orphan sections. */
252 enum orphan_handling_enum orphan_handling;
254 /* If TRUE, warn if multiple global-pointers are needed (Alpha
255 only). */
256 bool warn_multiple_gp;
258 /* If TRUE, warn if the starting address of an output section
259 changes due to the alignment of an input section. */
260 bool warn_section_align;
262 /* If TRUE, warning messages are fatal. */
263 bool fatal_warnings;
265 /* If TRUE, warning and error messages are ignored. */
266 bool no_warnings;
268 sort_order sort_common;
270 bool text_read_only;
272 bool stats;
274 /* If set, orphan input sections will be mapped to separate output
275 sections. */
276 bool unique_orphan_sections;
278 /* If set, only search library directories explicitly selected
279 on the command line. */
280 bool only_cmd_line_lib_dirs;
282 /* If set, numbers and absolute symbols are simply treated as
283 numbers everywhere. */
284 bool sane_expr;
286 /* If set, code and non-code sections should never be in one segment. */
287 bool separate_code;
289 /* If set, generation of ELF section header should be suppressed. */
290 bool no_section_header;
292 /* The rpath separation character. Usually ':'. */
293 char rpath_separator;
295 char *map_filename;
296 FILE *map_file;
298 char *dependency_file;
300 unsigned int split_by_reloc;
301 bfd_size_type split_by_file;
303 /* The size of the hash table to use. */
304 unsigned long hash_table_size;
306 /* If set, store plugin intermediate files permanently. */
307 bool plugin_save_temps;
309 /* If set, print discarded sections in map file output. */
310 bool print_map_discarded;
312 /* If set, print local symbols in map file output. */
313 bool print_map_locals;
315 /* If set, emit the names and types of statically-linked variables
316 into the CTF. */
317 bool ctf_variables;
319 /* If set, share only duplicated types in CTF, rather than sharing
320 all types that are not in conflict. */
321 bool ctf_share_duplicated;
323 /* Compress DWARF debug sections. */
324 enum compressed_debug_section_type compress_debug;
325 } ld_config_type;
327 extern ld_config_type config;
329 extern FILE * saved_script_handle;
330 extern bool force_make_executable;
331 extern bool in_section_ordering;
333 extern int yyparse (void);
334 extern void add_cref (const char *, bfd *, asection *, bfd_vma);
335 extern bool handle_asneeded_cref (bfd *, enum notice_asneeded_action);
336 extern void output_cref (FILE *);
337 extern void check_nocrossrefs (void);
338 extern void ld_abort (const char *, int, const char *) ATTRIBUTE_NORETURN;
340 /* If gcc >= 2.6, we can give a function name, too. */
341 #if __GNUC__ < 2 || (__GNUC__ == 2 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 6)
342 #define __PRETTY_FUNCTION__ NULL
343 #endif
345 #undef abort
346 #define abort() ld_abort (__FILE__, __LINE__, __PRETTY_FUNCTION__)
348 #endif