1. 21 Oct, 2019 2 commits
    • Cherry Zhang's avatar
      [dev.link] cmd/dist: reenable shared library tests · 4fa524b7
      Cherry Zhang authored
      Change-Id: Ifa4de9333b9275d832ebf68c89d3239ed438b104
      Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/201819
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      [dev.link] cmd: reference symbols by name when linking against Go shared library · 97e497b2
      Cherry Zhang authored
      When building a program that links against Go shared libraries,
      it needs to reference symbols defined in the shared library. At
      compile time, we don't know where the shared library boundary is.
      If we reference a symbol in package p by index, and package p is
      actually part of a shared library, we cannot resolve the index at
      link time, as the linker doesn't see the object file of p.
      
      So when linking against Go shared libraries, always use named
      reference for now.
      
      To do this, the compiler needs to know whether we will be linking
      against Go shared libraries. The -dynlink flag kind of indicates
      that (as the document says), but currently it is actually
      overloaded: it is also used when building a plugin or a shared
      library, which is self-contained (if -linkshared is not otherwise
      specified) and could use index for symbol reference. So we
      introduce another compiler flag, -linkshared, specifically for
      linking against Go shared libraries. The go command will pass
      this flag if its -linkshared flag is specified
      ("go build -linkshared").
      
      There may be better way to handle this. For example, we can
      put the symbol indices in a special section in the shared library
      that the linker can read. Or we can generate some per-package
      description file to include the indices. (Currently we generate
      a .shlibname file for each package that is included in a shared
      library, which contains the path of the library. We could
      consider extending this.) That said, this CL is a stop-gap
      solution. And it is no worse than the old object files.
      
      If we were to redesign the build system so that the shared
      library boundary is known at compile time, we could use indices
      for symbol references that do not cross shared library boundary,
      as well as doing other things better.
      
      Change-Id: I9c02aad36518051cc4785dbe25c4b4cef8f3faeb
      Reviewed-on: https://go-review.googlesource.com/c/go/+/201818
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