Weak linkage support

Question

Weak linkage support

bjorn3 opened this issue 6 years ago · 2 comments

This is needed for libstd:

https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/blob/1a51bb8174e97251a37fcd83ff8750b7773e762a/src/libstd/sys/unix/fast_thread_local.rs#L22

Answer 1 · 2019-01-30T18:47:55.000Z

cc rust-lang/rustc_codegen_cranelift#146

Answer 2 · 2019-02-15T19:25:35.000Z

My plan is to change the global :bool field in the relevant artifact::Decl variants to instead be scope: Scope where pub enum Scope { Local, Global, Weak }. I don't want to re-use the ELF term "binding" for this in the public API because its confusing, and there is already a concept of artifact::Binding in the library.

Based on my reading of goblin's mach code, it appears there is a flag to mark exports as weak definitions, so this scheme should be supportable with mach (https://github.com/m4b/goblin/blob/master/src/mach/exports.rs#L25). I'd love if someone could point me to reference materials on the mach file format. Unfortunately, I don't have access to a machine running Mac OS to test this, but I could probably convince my employer to send me a retired macbook.