This format is a superset of BTF, but for now we just do the minimum to
declare a new file format version, without actually introducing any format
changes.
From now on, we refuse to reserialize CTFv1 dicts: these have a distinct
parent/child boundary which obviously cannot change upon reserialization
(that would change the type IDs): instead, we encoded this by stuffing in
a unique CTF version for such dicts. We can't do that now we have one
version for all CTFv4 dicts, and testing such old dicts is very hard these
days anyway, and is not automated: so just drop support for writing them out
entirely. (You still *can* write them out, but you have to do a full-blown
ctf_link, which generates an all-new fresh dict and recomputes type IDs as
part of deduplication.)
To prevent this extremely-not-ready format escaping into the wild, add a
new mechanism whereby any format version higher than the new #define
CTF_STABLE_VERSION cannot be serialized unless I_KNOW_LIBCTF_IS_UNSTABLE is
set in the environment.
include/
* ctf-api.h (_CTF_ERRORS) [ECTF_CTFVERS_NO_SERIALIZE]: New.
[ECTF_UNSTABLE]: New.
(ECTF_NERR): Update.
* ctf.h: Small comment improvements..
(ctf_header_v3): New, copy of ctf_header.
(CTF_VERSION_4): New.
(CTF_VERSION): Now CTF_VERSION_4.
(CTF_STABLE_VERSION): Still 4, CTF_VERSION_3.
ld/
* testsuite/ld-ctf/*.d: Update to CTF_VERSION_4.
libctf/
* ctf-impl.h (LCTF_NO_SERIALIZE): New.
* ctf-dump.c (ctf_dump_header): Add CTF_VERSION_4.
* ctf-open.c (ctf_dictops): Likewise.
(upgrade_header): Rename to...
(upgrade_header_v2): ... this.
(upgrade_header_v3): New.
(upgrade_types): Support upgrading from CTF_VERSION_3.
Turn on LCTF_NO_SERIALIZE for CTFv1.
(init_static_types_internal): Upgrade all types tables older than
* CTF_VERSION_4.
(ctf_bufopen): Support CTF_VERSION_4: error out if we forget to
update this switch in future. Add header upgrading from v3 and
below. Improve comments slightly.
* ctf-serialize.c (ctf_serialize): Block serialization of unstable
file formats, and of file formats for which LCTF_NO_SERIALIZE is
turned on (v1).
When two types conflict and they are not types which can have forwards
(say, two arrays of different sizes with the same name in two different
TUs) the CTF deduplicator uses a popularity contest to decide what to
do: the type cited by the most other types ends up put into the shared
dict, while the others are relegated to per-CU child dicts.
This works well as long as one type *is* most popular -- but what if
there is a tie? If several types have the same popularity count,
we end up picking the first we run across and promoting it, and
unfortunately since we are working over a dynhash in essentially
arbitrary order, this means we promote a random one. So multiple
runs of ld with the same inputs can produce different outputs!
All the outputs are valid, but this is still undesirable.
Adjust things to use the same strategy used to sort types on the output:
when there is a tie, always put the type that appears in a CU that
appeared earlier on the link line (and if there is somehow still a tie,
which should be impossible, pick the type with the lowest type ID).
Add a testcase -- and since this emerged when trying out extern arrays,
check that those work as well (this requires a newer GCC, but since all
GCCs that can emit CTF at all are unreleased this is probably OK as
well).
Fix up one testcase that has slight type ordering changes as a result
of this change.
libctf/ChangeLog:
* ctf-dedup.c (ctf_dedup_detect_name_ambiguity): Use
cd_output_first_gid to break ties.
ld/ChangeLog:
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-conflicted-ordering.d: New test, using...
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-char-conflicting-1.c: ... this...
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-char-conflicting-2.c: ... and this.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-extern.d: New test, using...
* testsuite/ld-ctf/array-extern.c: ... this.
* testsuite/ld-ctf/conflicting-typedefs.d: Adjust for ordering
changes.
