pub fn create_compressed_metadata_file_for_xcoff(
file: Object<'_>,
data: &[u8],
symbol_name: &str,
) -> Vec<u8>
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- Xcoff - On AIX, custom sections are merged into predefined sections,
so custom .rustc section is not preserved during linking.
For this reason, we store metadata in predefined .info section, and
define a symbol to reference the metadata. To preserve metadata during
linking on AIX, we have to
- Create an empty .text section, a empty .data section.
- Define an empty symbol named
symbol_name
inside .data section.
- Define an symbol named
AIX_METADATA_SYMBOL_NAME
referencing
data inside .info section.
From XCOFF’s view, (2) creates a csect entry in the symbol table, the
symbol created by (3) is a info symbol for the preceding csect. Thus
two symbols are preserved during linking and we can use the second symbol
to reference the metadata.