rucc_asm/

data.rs

//! Global variables as the image a file carries and the facts a linker needs about it.
//!
//! Design: `spec/11-asm-objects-debug.md` section 11.1, which asks that the text path and the
//! binary path share one description so they cannot disagree. That is what this is for data: the
//! walk over a module's globals happens once, here, and what it produces is a list of pieces that
//! [`crate::att`] writes down as directives and [`Globals::image`] writes down as bytes. A `.long`
//! in a listing and the four bytes in the object beside it come from the same piece.
//!
//! # What a piece is
//!
//! As much of an image as one directive says. The four kinds are the four things C can put in an
//! initializer: a run of zeros, a run of literal bytes, one scalar, and the address of a symbol.
//! The first three are bytes the compiler knows and the fourth is a hole the linker fills, which
//! is the only reason data has relocations at all.
//!
//! Where a variable goes is worked out here too, from what the variable is rather than from
//! anything the object format says: a variable nothing writes through goes in a page the loader
//! can map read only, one whose image is all zeros goes in the section that carries no image, and
//! one the program named a section for goes where the program said. What those sections are
//! called is the format's business and is in [`crate::format`].
//!
//! # The second names
//!
//! [`aliases`] is the same idea for what `__attribute__((alias("target")))` asks for, and is here
//! for the same reason: `.set b, a` in a listing and a second symbol table entry in an object have
//! to be saying the same thing. There is no image in one, which is what makes an alias free.
//!
//! # What is refused
//!
//! A thread-local variable on a format that is not ELF. ELF says one with a section flag and a
//! symbol type, which is what [`place`] and [`crate::format`] write. Windows hands out an index at
//! load time and reaches a variable through a table the index names, and Mach-O puts a descriptor
//! in front of every one and reaches it by calling through the descriptor, so neither is this
//! written a different way and both are refused by name rather than written out as an ordinary
//! variable that every thread would share.
//!
//! An ifunc, which is the other thing an alias in the IR can be. It is resolved once at program
//! start by calling a function in the same object, which wants a symbol type and a relocation
//! neither half of this writes yet.

use rucc_base::{Interner, Symbol};
use rucc_ir as ir;
use rucc_ir::{AliasKind, Datum, GlobalId, Linkage, Module, SymbolRef};
use rucc_object::{Alias, Binding, Data, Object, Place, Reference, Reloc, Visibility};
use rucc_target::ObjectFormat;

use crate::Error;

/// Every variable a module defines, laid out.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, Default, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Globals {
    /// One entry per definition, in the order the module held them. A declaration is not here,
    /// because a file says nothing about a variable another file defines beyond the references
    /// that name it, and those are already in the text.
    pub vars: Vec<Variable>,
    /// Every name a declaration wrote `weak` on and this file does not define, in the order the
    /// module held them.
    ///
    /// Not a definition and not bytes of anything, which is why it is a list of names beside the
    /// variables rather than an entry among them. What it asks for is that the link be allowed to
    /// leave the name undefined and hand every reference a zero address, which is how a library
    /// offers a hook a profiler may fill in: the calls are written under `if (hook)` and the test
    /// is false when nobody filled it in. Without it the link of a file that declares one fails
    /// on an undefined symbol, which is what zstd's four tracing hooks do.
    ///
    /// Every one of them is here whether or not anything in the file refers to it, which is what
    /// keeps the listing and the object saying the same thing: both read this list and neither
    /// works out the answer for itself. gcc writes the directive only for the ones something
    /// refers to, so a file that declares a hook and never calls it gets one undefined weak symbol
    /// here that gcc does not put in. A linker has nothing to do about an undefined weak symbol
    /// nothing refers to, which is why that difference is a difference and not a bug.
    pub weak: Vec<String>,
}

/// One global variable, as the pieces of its image and what the linker is told about it.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub struct Variable {
    /// Its name, as the C program spelled it. The underscore an Apple symbol carries is added
    /// when it is written down, because it is a fact about the object format and not about the
    /// variable.
    pub name: String,
    /// How many bytes it occupies, which the pieces add up to.
    pub size: u64,
    /// What it has to be aligned to, always a power of two.
    pub align: u64,
    /// Which section it goes in.
    pub place: Place,
    /// How the linker sees the name.
    pub binding: Binding,
    /// How far outside a shared library holding it the name reaches.
    pub visibility: Visibility,
    /// Its image, in order.
    pub pieces: Vec<Piece>,
}

/// As much of an image as one directive says.
#[derive(Debug, Clone, PartialEq, Eq)]
pub enum Piece {
    /// That many zero bytes, which is the tail of a partly initialized array and the whole of a
    /// variable with no initializer.
    Zero(u64),
    /// Those literal bytes, which is what a string literal and anything already laid out is.
    Bytes(Vec<u8>),
    /// One number, in the byte order the module was built for, as many bytes wide as its type.
    Scalar(Vec<u8>),
    /// The address of a symbol, which is a hole this compiler leaves and the linker fills.
    Addr {
        /// Whose address it is, as the C program spelled it.
        symbol: String,
        /// What to add to that address. `&array[2]` is the address of `array` plus eight.
        addend: i64,
        /// How many bytes it occupies.
        bytes: u8,
    },
    /// How far a symbol is from these four bytes, which is the same hole with a different
    /// question in it. `.long target - .` in an `asm` at file scope and nothing else.
    Away {
        /// Whose distance it is, as the template spelled it.
        symbol: String,
        /// What to add to that address before the distance is taken, which is how far into the
        /// symbol the place being measured to sits.
        addend: i64,
    },
}

impl Piece {
    /// How many bytes it contributes to the image.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn size(&self) -> u64 {
        match self {
            Piece::Zero(bytes) => *bytes,
            Piece::Bytes(bytes) | Piece::Scalar(bytes) => bytes.len() as u64,
            Piece::Addr { bytes, .. } => u64::from(*bytes),
            Piece::Away { .. } => 4,
        }
    }
}

impl Globals {
    /// The image of every variable, and where in each one the linker has to write an address.
    ///
    /// A variable in a section that carries no image contributes its size and none of its bytes,
    /// which is what makes a program with a large zeroed array a small file.
    #[must_use]
    pub fn image(&self) -> Data {
        let mut data = Data { weak: self.weak.clone(), ..Data::default() };
        for var in &self.vars {
            let mut object = Object {
                name: var.name.clone(),
                bytes: Vec::new(),
                size: var.size,
                align: var.align,
                place: var.place.clone(),
                binding: var.binding,
                visibility: var.visibility,
                relocs: Vec::new(),
            };
            if matches!(var.place, Place::Zero | Place::Merged | Place::Thread { zero: true }) {
                data.objects.push(object);
                continue;
            }
            for piece in &var.pieces {
                match piece {
                    Piece::Zero(bytes) => {
                        object.bytes.resize(object.bytes.len() + *bytes as usize, 0);
                    }
                    Piece::Bytes(bytes) | Piece::Scalar(bytes) => {
                        object.bytes.extend_from_slice(bytes);
                    }
                    Piece::Addr { symbol, addend, bytes } => {
                        // The bytes are left zero rather than holding anything, because a linker
                        // writes the whole hole from the addend and never reads what was there.
                        object.relocs.push(Reloc {
                            at: object.bytes.len(),
                            symbol: symbol.clone(),
                            kind: Reference::Address { bytes: *bytes },
                            addend: *addend,
                            // An image rather than an instruction, so there is nothing after the
                            // hole for the question to be about.
                            after: 0,
                        });
                        object.bytes.resize(object.bytes.len() + usize::from(*bytes), 0);
                    }
                    Piece::Away { symbol, addend } => {
                        object.relocs.push(Reloc {
                            at: object.bytes.len(),
                            symbol: symbol.clone(),
                            kind: Reference::Away,
                            addend: *addend,
                            after: 0,
                        });
                        object.bytes.resize(object.bytes.len() + 4, 0);
                    }
                }
            }
            data.objects.push(object);
        }
        data
    }
}

/// Every variable a module defines, laid out.
///
/// The format is an argument because one question here is the format's rather than the module's:
/// a thread-local variable is a section flag and a symbol type on ELF and is neither of those on
/// the other two, so which of them is being written decides whether there is anything to write.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// [`Error::Thread`] for a thread-local variable on a format that does not spell one this way,
/// which is a program this compiler is behind on rather than a mistake, and [`Error::Image`] for a
/// piece of an initializer nothing here can write down. See [`Error`].
pub fn globals(module: &Module, names: &Interner, format: ObjectFormat) -> Result<Globals, Error> {
    let mut out = Globals::default();
    for id in module.globals() {
        if module[id].is_declaration() {
            continue;
        }
        out.vars.push(variable(module, names, id, format)?);
    }
    // The other half, which is names and no bytes. A declaration is not a variable and has no
    // image, so it is skipped above and picked up here, and only the weak ones are: an ordinary
    // undefined name needs nothing said about it, since a reference to one is already an
    // undefined symbol and a link that cannot resolve it is a link that should fail.
    //
    // The functions as well as the objects, and the functions are the ones a program actually
    // writes: a hook a library offers is a function, and `if (hook)` around the call is the test
    // that reads the zero address a weak reference gets. Both walks are here rather than one in
    // each caller, for the reason the walk over the definitions above is one walk.
    for id in module.funcs() {
        let func = &module[id];
        if func.is_declaration() && func.linkage == Linkage::Weak {
            out.weak.push(names.resolve(func.name).to_owned());
        }
    }
    for id in module.globals() {
        let global = &module[id];
        if global.is_declaration() && global.linkage == Linkage::Weak {
            out.weak.push(names.resolve(global.name).to_owned());
        }
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// Every second name a module gives something, in the order it gave them.
///
/// One walk for the same reason the one over the globals above is one: `.set b, a` in a listing
/// and a second symbol table entry in an object have to be saying the same thing, and the way to
/// be sure of that is for both of them to be reading the same list.
///
/// # Errors
///
/// [`Error::IFunc`] for an ifunc, which is the other thing this shape of the IR carries and is a
/// program this compiler is behind on rather than a mistake. See [`Error`].
pub fn aliases(module: &Module, names: &Interner) -> Result<Vec<Alias>, Error> {
    let mut out = Vec::new();
    for id in module.aliases() {
        let alias = &module[id];
        let name = names.resolve(alias.name).to_owned();
        if alias.kind != AliasKind::Alias {
            return Err(Error::IFunc { name });
        }
        out.push(Alias {
            name,
            target: names.resolve(alias.target).to_owned(),
            binding: binding(alias.linkage),
            visibility: visibility(alias.visibility),
        });
    }
    Ok(out)
}

/// One variable, laid out.
fn variable(
    module: &Module,
    names: &Interner,
    id: GlobalId,
    format: ObjectFormat,
) -> Result<Variable, Error> {
    let global = &module[id];
    let name = names.resolve(global.name).to_owned();
    if global.tls.is_some() && format != ObjectFormat::Elf {
        return Err(Error::Thread { name, format: format.as_str() });
    }
    let init = global.init.expect("a definition has an image");

    let mut pieces = Vec::new();
    // The names the image holds the addresses of, kept as symbols rather than read back off the
    // pieces, because whether one of them is defined here is a question about this module and the
    // pieces carry the spelling rather than the name.
    let mut addrs = Vec::new();
    let mut written = 0;
    for datum in &module[init] {
        let piece = match *datum {
            Datum::Zero(bytes) => Piece::Zero(bytes),
            Datum::Bytes(range) => Piece::Bytes(module[range].to_vec()),
            Datum::Scalar { ty, value } => {
                if ty.lanes() != 1 {
                    let why = format!("a {ty} in an initializer");
                    return Err(Error::Image { name, why });
                }
                let bytes = usize::try_from(ty.bits().div_ceil(8)).expect("a scalar this wide");
                let mut image = module[value].bits().to_le_bytes()[..bytes].to_vec();
                if !module.datalayout.little_endian {
                    image.reverse();
                }
                Piece::Scalar(image)
            }
            // A distance rather than an address, which is the same symbol and addend read a
            // different way. It is not in `addrs` below, because what that list is for is whether
            // a read only image needs relocating when it is loaded, and a distance between two
            // places in the same file is the same number wherever the file is loaded.
            Datum::Away(idx) => {
                let reloc = module[idx];
                if reloc.size != 4 {
                    let why = format!("a distance {} bytes wide", reloc.size);
                    return Err(Error::Image { name, why });
                }
                let symbol = names.resolve(reloc.symbol).to_owned();
                Piece::Away { symbol, addend: reloc.addend }
            }
            Datum::Addr(idx) => {
                let reloc = module[idx];
                // Four and eight are the widths a machine has a relocation for and a directive
                // for. Anything else is a module nothing here produced and neither half of the
                // description could write down, so it is refused rather than rounded to one.
                let bytes = match reloc.size {
                    4 | 8 => reloc.size as u8,
                    size => {
                        let why = format!("an address {size} bytes wide");
                        return Err(Error::Image { name, why });
                    }
                };
                let symbol = names.resolve(reloc.symbol).to_owned();
                addrs.push(reloc.symbol);
                Piece::Addr { symbol, addend: reloc.addend, bytes }
            }
        };
        written += piece.size();
        pieces.push(piece);
    }
    // An image shorter than the variable is the rest of an array nothing initialized, which the
    // front end may leave off the end rather than write out as zeros it already said were there.
    if written < global.size {
        pieces.push(Piece::Zero(global.size - written));
    }

    let place = place(module, names, id, &pieces, &addrs);
    let size = global.size.max(written);
    let binding = binding(global.linkage);
    let visibility = visibility(global.visibility);
    Ok(Variable { name, size, align: u64::from(global.align), place, binding, visibility, pieces })
}

/// What the linker is told about a name, from the linkage the module gave it.
///
/// Three of the five, because that is how many an object file can say. Which of the two weak ones
/// a symbol had is a fact the optimizer needs and the linker does not, and a common one is a
/// definition every other file may also make, which is a section rather than a binding.
const fn binding(linkage: Linkage) -> Binding {
    match linkage {
        Linkage::Internal => Binding::Local,
        Linkage::Weak | Linkage::LinkOnce => Binding::Weak,
        Linkage::External | Linkage::Common => Binding::Global,
    }
}

/// What the dynamic linker is told about a name, from the visibility the module gave it.
///
/// All three, because ELF says all three, and the two enumerations are the same three answers
/// written once in a crate that is not allowed to know what an object file is and once in one
/// that is.
const fn visibility(visibility: ir::Visibility) -> Visibility {
    match visibility {
        ir::Visibility::Default => Visibility::Default,
        ir::Visibility::Hidden => Visibility::Hidden,
        ir::Visibility::Protected => Visibility::Protected,
    }
}

/// Which section a variable goes in.
///
/// The program's answer when it gave one, and otherwise worked out from what the variable is. A
/// tentative definition is asked of the linker rather than put anywhere, since the whole of what
/// it says is that the variable exists and that some other file may say so too.
///
/// Being constant is not on its own enough to put a variable in a section nothing may ever write.
/// An image holding the address of something is an image the loader has to write, because an
/// address is not a number a link knows when everything it links may be moved. So the question
/// asked of a constant variable is whether its image holds an address, and one that does goes in
/// the section that is writable for exactly as long as the loader needs it to be.
///
/// A variable with no image at all is not zero filled, it is empty, and the two differ. An `asm`
/// at file scope writes one whenever it puts a label at the end of what it just wrote, and what
/// that label means is the address after those bytes, so it belongs in the section those bytes
/// went into. Sending it to the section of zeros instead would move it away from the run it was
/// written to mark the end of, and the distance a program reads off it would be a different
/// distance.
fn place(
    module: &Module,
    names: &Interner,
    id: GlobalId,
    pieces: &[Piece],
    addrs: &[Symbol],
) -> Place {
    let global = &module[id];
    // First, because a thread-local variable has to be in one of the two sections a thread gets a
    // copy of whatever else is true of it. It is never merged, since what `.comm` asks the linker
    // for is one piece of zeroed space and this wants one per thread, and it is never read only,
    // since the copy is made by writing it.
    if global.tls.is_some() {
        let zero = !pieces.is_empty() && pieces.iter().all(|piece| matches!(piece, Piece::Zero(_)));
        return Place::Thread { zero };
    }
    if let Some(section) = global.section {
        return Place::Named(names.resolve(section).to_owned());
    }
    if global.linkage == Linkage::Common {
        return Place::Merged;
    }
    if !pieces.is_empty() && pieces.iter().all(|piece| matches!(piece, Piece::Zero(_))) {
        return Place::Zero;
    }
    if global.constant {
        return match addrs {
            [] => Place::ReadOnly,
            _ => Place::RelocReadOnly {
                local: addrs.iter().all(|&symbol| resolved_here(module, symbol)),
            },
        };
    }
    Place::Written
}

/// Whether that name is one this file both defines and keeps to itself.
///
/// Both halves matter. A name this file does not define is one the link resolves from somewhere
/// else, and a name this file exports is one another object may define instead, so neither is an
/// address the first pages of the relocated segment can be laid out around.
fn resolved_here(module: &Module, symbol: Symbol) -> bool {
    match module.lookup(symbol) {
        Some(SymbolRef::Func(id)) => {
            module[id].linkage == Linkage::Internal && !module[id].is_declaration()
        }
        Some(SymbolRef::Global(id)) => {
            module[id].linkage == Linkage::Internal && !module[id].is_declaration()
        }
        Some(SymbolRef::Alias(id)) => module[id].linkage == Linkage::Internal,
        None => false,
    }
}

#[cfg(test)]
mod tests {
    use super::*;

    use rucc_ir::{Alias as IrAlias, Global, Imm, Reloc as IrReloc, TlsModel, Type};
    use rucc_target::{Arch, Env, Os, TargetInfo, Triple};

    /// A module for the one target every case here is written for.
    fn module(names: &mut Interner) -> Module {
        let target = TargetInfo::new(Triple::new(Arch::X86_64, Os::Linux, Env::Gnu));
        Module::new(names.intern("t.c"), &target)
    }

    /// A four byte variable with that image.
    fn defined(module: &mut Module, names: &mut Interner, name: &str, data: &[Datum]) -> GlobalId {
        let list = module.push_data(data);
        let mut global = Global::new(names.intern(name), 4, 4);
        global.init = Some(list);
        module.add_global(global)
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_declaration_is_not_a_variable_this_file_defines() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        module.add_global(Global::new(names.intern("x"), 4, 4));
        defined(&mut module, &mut names, "y", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of two globals").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars.iter().map(|var| var.name.as_str()).collect::<Vec<_>>(), ["y"]);
    }

    /// A variable's visibility comes through the layout and out the other side of the image.
    ///
    /// Two hops rather than one, because a variable is laid out here and then turned into an
    /// object for the writer a hundred lines further up, and a field that survives the first and
    /// not the second is a field the object file never hears about.
    #[test]
    fn the_visibility_a_variable_asked_for_reaches_the_image() {
        for (asked, wanted) in [
            (ir::Visibility::Default, Visibility::Default),
            (ir::Visibility::Hidden, Visibility::Hidden),
            (ir::Visibility::Protected, Visibility::Protected),
        ] {
            let mut names = Interner::new();
            let mut module = module(&mut names);
            let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
            module[id].visibility = asked;
            let out = globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global");
            assert_eq!(out.vars[0].visibility, wanted, "{asked:?}");
            assert_eq!(out.image().objects[0].visibility, wanted, "{asked:?} through the image");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_number_in_an_image_is_the_bytes_the_machine_reads_it_as() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(258, Type::int(32)));
        defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value }]);
        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].pieces, [Piece::Scalar(vec![2, 1, 0, 0])]);
        // The low byte first, which is what this machine reads and is a fact about the module
        // rather than about the variable.
        assert_eq!(vars[0].pieces[0].size(), 4);
    }

    #[test]
    fn what_a_variable_is_decides_which_section_it_goes_in() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(1, Type::int(32)));
        let scalar = Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value };

        let zeroed = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "zeroed", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        let written = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "written", &[scalar]);
        let read_only = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "read_only", &[scalar]);
        module[read_only].constant = true;
        let named = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "named", &[scalar]);
        module[named].section = Some(names.intern(".init_array"));
        let merged = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "merged", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        module[merged].linkage = Linkage::Common;

        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of five globals").vars;
        let places: Vec<&Place> = vars.iter().map(|var| &var.place).collect();
        assert_eq!(
            places,
            [
                &Place::Zero,
                &Place::Written,
                &Place::ReadOnly,
                &Place::Named(".init_array".to_owned()),
                &Place::Merged,
            ]
        );
        let _ = (zeroed, written);
    }

    /// A constant holding an address goes where the loader may write it once, not in `.rodata`.
    ///
    /// Three of them, because the question has three answers. One whose address is of something
    /// this file defines and keeps to itself is local, one whose address is of a name this file
    /// only declares is not, and one that mixes the two is not either, since it takes only one
    /// name the link resolves from elsewhere to spoil it. The fourth is the constant with no
    /// address in it at all, which is the case that has to keep going where it went before.
    #[test]
    fn a_constant_holding_an_address_goes_where_the_loader_may_write_it_once() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(1, Type::int(32)));

        let mine = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "mine", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        module[mine].linkage = Linkage::Internal;
        let theirs = module.add_global(Global::new(names.intern("theirs"), 4, 4));

        let to_mine = module.add_reloc(IrReloc { symbol: module[mine].name, addend: 0, size: 8 });
        let to_theirs =
            module.add_reloc(IrReloc { symbol: module[theirs].name, addend: 0, size: 8 });

        let plain = defined(
            &mut module,
            &mut names,
            "plain",
            &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value }],
        );
        module[plain].constant = true;
        let local = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "local", &[Datum::Addr(to_mine)]);
        module[local].constant = true;
        module[local].size = 8;
        let far = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "far", &[Datum::Addr(to_theirs)]);
        module[far].constant = true;
        module[far].size = 8;
        let both = defined(
            &mut module,
            &mut names,
            "both",
            &[Datum::Addr(to_mine), Datum::Addr(to_theirs)],
        );
        module[both].constant = true;
        module[both].size = 16;

        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of five globals").vars;
        let places: Vec<(&str, &Place)> =
            vars.iter().map(|var| (var.name.as_str(), &var.place)).collect();
        assert_eq!(
            places,
            [
                ("mine", &Place::Zero),
                ("plain", &Place::ReadOnly),
                ("local", &Place::RelocReadOnly { local: true }),
                ("far", &Place::RelocReadOnly { local: false }),
                ("both", &Place::RelocReadOnly { local: false }),
            ]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_rest_of_an_image_the_front_end_left_off_is_zeros() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(7, Type::int(8)));
        let id =
            defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(8), value }]);
        module[id].size = 4;
        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].pieces, [Piece::Scalar(vec![7]), Piece::Zero(3)]);
        assert_eq!(vars[0].size, 4);
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_variable_holding_an_address_is_a_hole_and_a_name_for_the_linker() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let reloc = module.add_reloc(IrReloc { symbol: names.intern("y"), addend: 16, size: 8 });
        let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "p", &[Datum::Addr(reloc)]);
        module[id].size = 8;
        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].pieces, [Piece::Addr { symbol: "y".to_owned(), addend: 16, bytes: 8 }]);

        let data = Globals { vars, weak: Vec::new() }.image();
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].bytes, vec![0; 8]);
        assert_eq!(
            data.objects[0].relocs,
            [Reloc {
                at: 0,
                symbol: "y".to_owned(),
                kind: Reference::Address { bytes: 8 },
                addend: 16,
                after: 0,
            }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_variable_holding_a_distance_is_a_hole_the_linker_measures_from_where_it_is() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let reloc = module.add_reloc(IrReloc { symbol: names.intern("y"), addend: 1, size: 4 });
        let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "d", &[Datum::Away(reloc)]);
        module[id].size = 4;
        // Read only rather than relocated at load time, which is the point of writing a table of
        // distances: what is in the four bytes is the same number wherever the file is loaded.
        module[id].constant = true;
        let vars =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].pieces, [Piece::Away { symbol: "y".to_owned(), addend: 1 }]);
        assert_eq!(vars[0].place, Place::ReadOnly);

        let data = Globals { vars, weak: Vec::new() }.image();
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].bytes, vec![0; 4]);
        assert_eq!(
            data.objects[0].relocs,
            [Reloc { at: 0, symbol: "y".to_owned(), kind: Reference::Away, addend: 1, after: 0 }]
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_distance_of_a_width_no_relocation_writes_is_refused_by_the_width_it_asked_for() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let reloc = module.add_reloc(IrReloc { symbol: names.intern("y"), addend: 0, size: 8 });
        let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "d", &[Datum::Away(reloc)]);
        module[id].size = 8;
        let failed = globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect_err("a distance that wide");
        assert_eq!(
            failed,
            Error::Image { name: "d".to_owned(), why: "a distance 8 bytes wide".to_owned() }
        );
    }

    #[test]
    fn a_variable_in_a_section_that_carries_no_image_carries_its_size_and_nothing_else() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Zero(4096)]);
        module[id].size = 4096;
        let data =
            globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of one global").image();
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].place, Place::Zero);
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].size, 4096);
        // The point of the section: a program with a large zeroed array is a small file.
        assert!(data.objects[0].bytes.is_empty());
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_linkage_a_variable_had_decides_how_the_linker_sees_the_name() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        for (index, (linkage, binding)) in [
            (Linkage::External, Binding::Global),
            (Linkage::Internal, Binding::Local),
            (Linkage::Weak, Binding::Weak),
            (Linkage::LinkOnce, Binding::Weak),
        ]
        .into_iter()
        .enumerate()
        {
            let name = format!("x{index}");
            let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, &name, &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
            module[id].linkage = linkage;
            let vars =
                globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a module of globals").vars;
            assert_eq!(vars[index].binding, binding, "{linkage:?}");
        }
    }

    #[test]
    fn the_linkage_an_alias_had_decides_how_the_linker_sees_the_second_name() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let target = names.intern("a");
        for (index, (linkage, binding)) in [
            (Linkage::External, Binding::Global),
            (Linkage::Internal, Binding::Local),
            (Linkage::Weak, Binding::Weak),
        ]
        .into_iter()
        .enumerate()
        {
            let mut alias = IrAlias::new(names.intern(&format!("b{index}")), target);
            alias.linkage = linkage;
            module.add_alias(alias);
            let written = aliases(&module, &names).expect("a module of aliases");
            assert_eq!(written[index].binding, binding, "{linkage:?}");
            assert_eq!(written[index].target, "a", "{linkage:?}");
        }
    }

    /// A different job from a second name for something, and the wrong answer would be an alias
    /// pointing at the resolver rather than at what the resolver picks.
    #[test]
    fn an_ifunc_is_refused_rather_than_written_as_an_ordinary_second_name() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let mut memcpy = IrAlias::new(names.intern("memcpy"), names.intern("pick_memcpy"));
        memcpy.kind = AliasKind::IFunc;
        module.add_alias(memcpy);
        let error = aliases(&module, &names).expect_err("an ifunc");
        assert_eq!(error, Error::IFunc { name: "memcpy".to_owned() });
    }

    /// The two sections a thread gets a copy of, told apart the way `.data` and `.bss` are.
    #[test]
    fn a_thread_local_variable_goes_in_the_section_a_thread_gets_a_copy_of() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(1, Type::int(32)));
        let written = defined(
            &mut module,
            &mut names,
            "counted",
            &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value }],
        );
        module[written].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);
        let zeroed = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "empty", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        module[zeroed].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);

        let vars = globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("two thread-locals").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].place, Place::Thread { zero: false }, ".tdata");
        assert_eq!(vars[1].place, Place::Thread { zero: true }, ".tbss");
    }

    /// Being read only loses to being thread-local, because the copy is made by writing it.
    #[test]
    fn a_constant_thread_local_is_still_in_the_section_a_thread_gets_a_copy_of() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(1, Type::int(32)));
        let id =
            defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value }]);
        module[id].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);
        module[id].constant = true;

        let vars = globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("a thread-local").vars;
        assert_eq!(vars[0].place, Place::Thread { zero: false });
    }

    /// The image of a thread-local whose image is all zeros costs the file nothing, the same as
    /// `.bss` does, and the one that is not all zeros carries its bytes.
    #[test]
    fn the_image_of_a_thread_local_is_carried_only_when_it_is_not_all_zeros() {
        let mut names = Interner::new();
        let mut module = module(&mut names);
        let value = module.add_imm(Imm::int(258, Type::int(32)));
        let written = defined(
            &mut module,
            &mut names,
            "counted",
            &[Datum::Scalar { ty: Type::int(32), value }],
        );
        module[written].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);
        let zeroed = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "empty", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
        module[zeroed].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);

        let data = globals(&module, &names, ObjectFormat::Elf).expect("two thread-locals").image();
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].bytes, [2, 1, 0, 0]);
        assert_eq!(data.objects[0].size, 4);
        assert!(data.objects[1].bytes.is_empty(), "a zeroed one carries its size and no bytes");
        assert_eq!(data.objects[1].size, 4);
    }

    /// Windows and Mach-O reach a thread-local through a table and through a descriptor, neither
    /// of which is a section with a flag on it, so the variable is refused by name there.
    #[test]
    fn a_thread_local_variable_is_refused_on_a_format_that_does_not_spell_one_this_way() {
        for format in [ObjectFormat::MachO, ObjectFormat::Coff] {
            let mut names = Interner::new();
            let mut module = module(&mut names);
            let id = defined(&mut module, &mut names, "x", &[Datum::Zero(4)]);
            module[id].tls = Some(TlsModel::GlobalDynamic);
            let error = globals(&module, &names, format).expect_err("a thread-local variable");
            assert_eq!(error, Error::Thread { name: "x".to_owned(), format: format.as_str() });
        }
    }
}