llvm dev - May 2019 - Executing code changed with LLVM

Hi everyone,

*1.* I had a file called server.cpp that i can run using:
 g++ -o server server.cpp -lrpc -ldl -lpthread

*2.* Converted the file into LLVM IR, modified it and saved to file using
the WriteBitcodeToFile function. The name of resulting file is
"output".

*3.* Used llc command for generation of "output.o" file as:
 llc -filetype=obj output

*4.* Used gcc command to create executable as:
gcc -lrpc -ldl -lpthread output.o

*Running gcc command gives me errors:*
/usr/bin/ld: output.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can
not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

*5.* Tried it by giving "--relocation-model=pic" flag to llc command.
But
if i run gcc command after that I get so many "*undefined reference
to*"
errors like:
/usr/bin/ld: output.o: in function `main':
llvm-link:(.text+0x41): undefined reference to
`rpc::server::server(unsigned short)'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0x4d): undefined reference to
`std::allocator<char>::allocator()'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0x60): undefined reference to
`std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> >::basic_string(char const*,
std::allocator<char>
const&)'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0x81): undefined reference to
`std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string()'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0x8a): undefined reference to
`std::allocator<char>::~allocator()'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0x93): undefined reference to
`rpc::server::run()'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0xa5): undefined reference to
`rpc::server::~server()'
/usr/bin/ld: llvm-link:(.text+0xc8): undefined reference to
`std::__cxx11::basic_string<char, std::char_traits<char>,
std::allocator<char> >::~basic_string()'

Someone please help me with this. Been stuck on it for so long.
If i don't have any external libraries, I can run a simple program after
modifications using the above steps easily.
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On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 13:28, Holland Vosijk via llvm-dev
<llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> 5. Tried it by giving "--relocation-model=pic" flag to llc
command. But if i run gcc command after that I get so many "undefined
reference to" errors like:
The std::* errors are because you need to link against libstdc++. If
you invoked GCC as "g++" I think it would automatically do that, or
you could manually add -lstdc++.

I'm not sure about the rpc::* errors though. The only librpc.so I can
find on Debian (in the sinfo package) does not contain those symbols,
so maybe you have an alternative version that you need to build to go
with your source and make sure it's the one found by ld.

Cheers.

Tim.

Thanks a lot for the response. Upon using g++ or gcc with -lstdc++ flag I
get the original error I was getting without the
"--relocation-model=pic"
flag for llc.i.e

/usr/bin/ld: output.o: relocation R_X86_64_32 against `.rodata.str1.1' can
not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIC
/usr/bin/ld: final link failed: nonrepresentable section on output
collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

Is there another way I can try to save the modified program to a file and
then execute it? Without using "llc" maybe?

On Sat, May 18, 2019 at 8:05 PM Tim Northover <t.p.northover at gmail.com>
wrote:
> On Sat, 18 May 2019 at 13:28, Holland Vosijk via llvm-dev
> <llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
> > 5. Tried it by giving "--relocation-model=pic" flag to llc
command. But
> if i run gcc command after that I get so many "undefined reference
to"
> errors like:
>
> The std::* errors are because you need to link against libstdc++. If
> you invoked GCC as "g++" I think it would automatically do that,
or
> you could manually add -lstdc++.
>
> I'm not sure about the rpc::* errors though. The only librpc.so I can
> find on Debian (in the sinfo package) does not contain those symbols,
> so maybe you have an alternative version that you need to build to go
> with your source and make sure it's the one found by ld.
>
> Cheers.
>
> Tim.
>
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