Don't put an orphan before the first . assignment.

This is an horrible special case, but seems to match bfd's behaviour
and is important for avoiding placing an orphan section before the
expected start of the file.

llvm-svn: 287994

2 files changed, 28 insertions, 3 deletions

diff --git a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
index 5618abd8f4b..8c5b7da77cf 100644
--- a/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
+++ b/lld/ELF/LinkerScript.cpp
@@ -632,13 +632,21 @@ template <class ELFT> void LinkerScript<ELFT>::adjustSectionsAfterSorting() {
 //  /* The RW PT_LOAD starts here*/
 //  rw_sec : { *(rw_sec) }
 // would mean that the RW PT_LOAD would become unaligned.
-static bool shouldSkip(const BaseCommand &Cmd) {
+static bool shouldSkip(int CmdIndex) {
+  auto CmdIter = ScriptConfig->Commands.begin() + CmdIndex;
+  const BaseCommand &Cmd = **CmdIter;
   if (isa<OutputSectionCommand>(Cmd))
     return false;
   const auto *Assign = dyn_cast<SymbolAssignment>(&Cmd);
   if (!Assign)
     return true;
-  return Assign->Name != ".";
+  if (Assign->Name != ".")
+    return true;
+  // As a horrible special case, skip a . assignment if it is the first thing in
+  // the script. We do this because it is common to set a load address by
+  // starting the script with ". = 0xabcd" and the expectation is that every
+  // section is after that.
+  return CmdIndex == 0;
 }
 
 // Orphan sections are sections present in the input files which are not
@@ -657,7 +665,7 @@ void LinkerScript<ELFT>::placeOrphanSections() {
     // correct result.
     auto CmdIter = Opt.Commands.begin() + CmdIndex;
     auto E = Opt.Commands.end();
-    while (CmdIter != E && shouldSkip(**CmdIter)) {
+    while (CmdIter != E && shouldSkip(CmdIndex)) {
       ++CmdIter;
       ++CmdIndex;
     }
diff --git a/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/orphan-first-cmd.s b/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/orphan-first-cmd.s
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..1bc063c9bca
--- /dev/null
+++ b/lld/test/ELF/linkerscript/orphan-first-cmd.s
@@ -0,0 +1,17 @@
+# REQUIRES: x86
+# RUN: llvm-mc -filetype=obj -triple=x86_64-pc-linux %s -o %t.o
+# RUN: echo "SECTIONS { \
+# RUN:         . = 0x1000; \
+# RUN:         . = 0x2000; \
+# RUN:         .bar : { . = . + 1; } \
+# RUN:       }" > %t.script
+# RUN: ld.lld -o %t -T %t.script %t.o -shared
+# RUN: llvm-readobj -s %t | FileCheck %s
+
+# CHECK:      Name: .text
+# CHECK-NEXT: Type: SHT_PROGBITS
+# CHECK-NEXT: Flags [
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_ALLOC
+# CHECK-NEXT:   SHF_EXECINSTR
+# CHECK-NEXT: ]
+# CHECK-NEXT: Address: 0x1000