Notable side effects:
* Use the standard-conformant MSVC preproc
* Add test for linker script INCLUDE
* Improve wording of placement conflict errors
* Fix errors from not newline-terminated files
* Teach checkdiff about the linker script doc
* Call linker script "commands" "directives" instead
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Co-authored-by: Rangi42 <remy.oukaour+rangi42@gmail.com>
The goal was to improve readability, but along the way a few things were
gained.
- Sorted sym and map files
- Infrastructure for supporting multiple .o versions
- Valgrind-proof, as far as my testing goes anyways
- Improved verbosity messages
- Added error checking
- Performance improvements, see end of commit message
The readability improvement was spurred while trying to make sense of the
old code while trying to implement features such as sorted sym and map
files.
I also did my best to remove hardcoded logic, such that modifications
should be doable; for example, "RAM loading" sections, which are linked
against a different location than the one they're stored at.
Some work remains to be done, see the "TODO:" and "FIXME:" comments.
Further, while regression tests pass, this new linker should be tested on
different codebases (ideally while instrumented with `make develop` and
under valgrind).
The few errors spotted in the man pages (alignment) need to be corrected.
Finally, documentation comments need to be written, I have written a lot of
them but not all.
This also provides a significant performance boost (benchmarked with a
51994-symbol project):
Current master RGBLINK:
2.02user 0.03system 0:02.06elapsed 99%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 84336maxresident)k
0inputs+11584outputs (0major+20729minor)pagefaults 0swaps
Rewritten RGBLINK:
0.19user 0.06system 0:00.63elapsed 40%CPU (0avgtext+0avgdata 32460maxresident)k
23784inputs+11576outputs (0major+7672minor)pagefaults 0swaps
The linker script now allows you to assign a section with the same
attributes as in the source.
To do this, I've removed a check from AssignSectionAddressAndBankByName
that would never be triggered, due to that condition being checked
before. Shouldn't this and IsSectionSameTypeBankAndAttrs be condensed
into a single function?
