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| -rw-r--r-- | lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h | 15 |
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diff --git a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h index df67e079ad0..5294ce01911 100644 --- a/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h +++ b/lld/ELF/SyntheticSections.h @@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ // License. See LICENSE.TXT for details. // //===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// +// +// Synthetic sections represent chunks of linker-created data. If you +// need to create a chunk of data that to be included in some section +// in the result, you probably want to create it as a synthetic section. +// +// In reality, there are a few linker-synthesized chunks that are not +// of synthetic sections, such as thunks. But we are rewriting them so +// that eventually they are represented as synthetic sections. +// +// Synthetic sections are designed as input sections as opposed to +// output sections because we want to allow them to be manipulated +// using linker scripts just like other input sections from regular +// files. +// +//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===// #ifndef LLD_ELF_SYNTHETIC_SECTION_H #define LLD_ELF_SYNTHETIC_SECTION_H |
