LLVM Extensions

Introduction

This document describes extensions to tools and formats LLVM seeks compatibility with.

General Assembly Syntax

C99-style Hexadecimal Floating-point Constants

LLVM’s assemblers allow floating-point constants to be written in C99’s hexadecimal format instead of decimal if desired.

.section .data
.float 0x1c2.2ap3

Machine-specific Assembly Syntax

X86/COFF-Dependent

Relocations

The following additional relocation type is supported:

@IMGREL (AT&T syntax only) generates an image-relative relocation that corresponds to the COFF relocation types IMAGE_REL_I386_DIR32NB (32-bit) or IMAGE_REL_AMD64_ADDR32NB (64-bit).

.text
fun:
  mov foo@IMGREL(%ebx, %ecx, 4), %eax

.section .pdata
  .long fun@IMGREL
  .long (fun@imgrel + 0x3F)
  .long $unwind$fun@imgrel

.linkonce Directive

Syntax:

.linkonce [ comdat type [ section identifier ] ]

Supported COMDAT types:

discard

Discards duplicate sections with the same COMDAT symbol. This is the default if no type is specified.

one_only

If the symbol is defined multiple times, the linker issues an error.

same_size

Duplicates are discarded, but the linker issues an error if any have different sizes.

same_contents

Duplicates are discarded, but the linker issues an error if any duplicates do not have exactly the same content.

associative

Links the section if a certain other COMDAT section is linked. This other section is indicated by its section identifier following the comdat type. The following restrictions apply to the associated section:

1. It must be the name of a section already defined.
2. It must differ from the current section.
3. It must be a COMDAT section.
4. It cannot be another associative COMDAT section.

largest

Links the largest section from among the duplicates.

newest

Links the newest section from among the duplicates.

.section .text$foo
.linkonce
  ...

.section .xdata$foo
.linkonce associative .text$foo
  ...

.section Directive

MC supports passing the information in .linkonce at the end of .section. For example, these two codes are equivalent

.section secName, "dr", discard, "Symbol1"
.globl Symbol1
Symbol1:
.long 1

.section secName, "dr"
.linkonce discard
.globl Symbol1
Symbol1:
.long 1

Note that in the combined form the COMDAT symbol is explict. This extension exits to support multiple sections with the same name in different comdats:

.section secName, "dr", discard, "Symbol1"
.globl Symbol1
Symbol1:
.long 1

.section secName, "dr", discard, "Symbol2"
.globl Symbol2
Symbol2:
.long 1