#!/usr/bin/env python3 # MobileGL - scripts/symbol_report.py # Copyright (c) 2025-2026 MobileGL-Dev # Licensed under the GNU Lesser General Public License v3.0: # https://www.gnu.org/licenses/gpl-3.0.txt # https://www.gnu.org/licenses/lgpl-3.0.txt # SPDX-License-Identifier: LGPL-3.0-only # End of Source File Header """Per-symbol nm/.text attribution between two libMobileGL.so builds. P0.5's acceptance gate says every `nm --defined-only -S` delta has to be explainable per symbol (ROADMAP.md:16). The awkward part is that de-nesting a type renames every mangled name that mentions it - `ProgramObject::LinkArtifacts` -> `LinkArtifacts` shows up inside every `std::vector<...>` instantiation too - so a raw nm diff of a pure move looks catastrophic. `--strip-scope` folds those into a "renamed-only" bucket: same normalised demangled name, byte-identical size. What is left over is the report's real content. python3 scripts/symbol_report.py --before old.so --after new.so python3 scripts/symbol_report.py --before old.so --after new.so \\ --strip-scope 'MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::ProgramObject::' \\ --only-names 'TypeFacts,ResourceReflection,XfbVarying,LinkArtifacts,SpirvArtifacts' \\ --markdown ~/w7/p05-symbol-report.md GUARD RAILS - the comparison is meaningless unless both .so files were built with: * the same CMAKE_BUILD_TYPE (the visibility presets differ between configurations, CMakeLists.txt:578-598, so a Debug/Release pair "adds" thousands of symbols), * MOBILEGL_ENABLE_LTO OFF on both sides (CMakeLists.txt:108,137-146 - LTO merges and renames at will and nothing here is attributable afterwards), * the same compiler and standard library. The header of every report prints both paths and their byte sizes so a mismatched pair is visible in the output rather than only in the reader's assumptions. This tool is informational (ARCHITECTURE.md:507, job name `monolith-symbol-report` ARCHITECTURE.md:568) and always exits 0; `--fail-on-added-bytes` is reserved for the day it becomes a hard gate. """ import argparse import json import os import re import shutil import subprocess import sys PREFIX = "symbol-report: " # `nm --defined-only -S` prints " ", and " " # for a defined symbol whose size the object file does not carry (absolute symbols, # assembler labels). NM_SIZED_RE = re.compile(r"^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\s+([0-9a-fA-F]+)\s+(\S)\s+(.+)$") NM_UNSIZED_RE = re.compile(r"^([0-9a-fA-F]+)\s+(\S)\s+(.+)$") # `size --format=sysv` prints "section size addr" rows plus a Total row. SIZE_ROW_RE = re.compile(r"^(\S+)\s+(\d+)(?:\s+(\d+))?\s*$") INTERESTING_SECTIONS = (".text", ".data", ".bss", ".rodata", "Total") def say(message): print(PREFIX + message) def parse_nm(text): """nm --defined-only -S transcript -> {mangled: (type, size_or_None)}.""" symbols = {} for line in text.splitlines(): line = line.rstrip() if not line: continue match = NM_SIZED_RE.match(line) if match: symbols[match.group(4)] = (match.group(3), int(match.group(2), 16)) continue match = NM_UNSIZED_RE.match(line) if match: symbols[match.group(3)] = (match.group(2), None) return symbols def parse_size(text): """size --format=sysv transcript -> {section: bytes}.""" sections = {} for line in text.splitlines(): stripped = line.strip() if not stripped or stripped.startswith("section"): continue match = SIZE_ROW_RE.match(stripped) if not match: continue sections[match.group(1)] = int(match.group(2)) return sections def demangle(names, cxxfilt): """Batch-demangle through c++filt; a plain identifier passes through unchanged.""" ordered = list(names) if not ordered: return {} if not cxxfilt or not (shutil.which(cxxfilt) or os.path.isfile(cxxfilt)): return {name: name for name in ordered} completed = subprocess.run([cxxfilt], input="\n".join(ordered) + "\n", stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.DEVNULL, text=True) lines = completed.stdout.splitlines() if len(lines) != len(ordered): return {name: name for name in ordered} return dict(zip(ordered, lines)) def parent_scope(prefix): """`A::B::C::` -> `A::B::` (drop the last named component, keep the enclosing scope). A de-nesting moves `A::B::C::X` to `A::B::X`, so folding the two spellings together means deleting the `C::` component, NOT the whole prefix - deleting the whole prefix would turn the before side into a bare `X` that no after-side name matches. """ body = prefix[:-2] if prefix.endswith("::") else prefix cut = body.rfind("::") return body[:cut + 2] if cut >= 0 else "" def normalise(name, strip_scopes, rename_map): """Textual folding of the demangled name: this is what makes a de-nesting a rename.""" for scope in strip_scopes: name = name.replace(scope, parent_scope(scope)) for old, new in rename_map: name = name.replace(old, new) return name def build_side(path, nm_tool, size_tool, cxxfilt, strip_scopes, rename_map, canned=None): if canned is None: nm_text = subprocess.run([nm_tool, "--defined-only", "-S", path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=True).stdout size_text = subprocess.run([size_tool, "--format=sysv", path], stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.PIPE, text=True, check=True).stdout else: nm_text, size_text = canned raw = parse_nm(nm_text) demangled = demangle(raw.keys(), cxxfilt) table = {} for mangled, (kind, size) in raw.items(): key = normalise(demangled.get(mangled, mangled), strip_scopes, rename_map) table.setdefault(key, []).append({"mangled": mangled, "type": kind, "size": size or 0, "demangled": demangled.get(mangled, mangled)}) folded = {} for key, entries in table.items(): folded[key] = { "size": sum(e["size"] for e in entries), "count": len(entries), "mangled": sorted(e["mangled"] for e in entries), "type": entries[0]["type"], } return folded, parse_size(size_text), len(raw) def bucket(before, after, only_names, threshold): def wanted(name): return not only_names or any(n in name for n in only_names) removed, added, resized, renamed, unchanged = [], [], [], [], 0 for name in sorted(set(before) | set(after)): b = before.get(name) a = after.get(name) if b is None: if wanted(name): added.append({"name": name, "delta": a["size"], "before": 0, "after": a["size"]}) continue if a is None: if wanted(name): removed.append({"name": name, "delta": -b["size"], "before": b["size"], "after": 0}) continue if a["size"] != b["size"] and abs(a["size"] - b["size"]) > threshold: if wanted(name): resized.append({"name": name, "delta": a["size"] - b["size"], "before": b["size"], "after": a["size"]}) continue if a["mangled"] != b["mangled"]: # same normalised name, byte-identical size: the pure-move signature if wanted(name): renamed.append({"name": name, "delta": 0, "before": b["mangled"][0], "after": a["mangled"][0]}) continue unchanged += 1 for group in (removed, added, resized): group.sort(key=lambda row: (-abs(row["delta"]), row["name"])) renamed.sort(key=lambda row: row["name"]) return removed, added, resized, renamed, unchanged def markdown_table(title, rows, columns): lines = ["", "### {} ({})".format(title, len(rows)), ""] if not rows: lines.append("_none_") lines.append("") return lines lines.append("| " + " | ".join(columns) + " |") lines.append("|" + "|".join(["---"] * len(columns)) + "|") for row in rows: lines.append("| " + " | ".join(str(cell).replace("|", "\\|") for cell in row) + " |") lines.append("") return lines CANNED_BEFORE = ("""0000000000001000 0000000000000010 T MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::ProgramObject::LinkArtifacts::Reset() 0000000000002000 0000000000000020 T MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::ProgramObject::Link() 0000000000003000 0000000000000030 T MobileGL::Gone() 0000000000004000 0000000000000040 T MobileGL::Grew() 0000000000005000 T MobileGL::NoSize() """, """libBefore.so : section size addr .text 1000 100 .data 200 2000 .bss 300 3000 Total 1500 """) CANNED_AFTER = ("""0000000000001000 0000000000000010 T MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::LinkArtifacts::Reset() 0000000000002000 0000000000000020 T MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::ProgramObject::Link() 0000000000004000 0000000000000050 T MobileGL::Grew() 0000000000006000 0000000000000060 T MobileGL::BrandNew() 0000000000005000 T MobileGL::NoSize() """, """libAfter.so : section size addr .text 1100 100 .data 200 2000 .bss 300 3000 Total 1600 """) def self_test(): strip = ["MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::ProgramObject::"] before, before_sections, before_count = build_side(None, None, None, None, strip, [], canned=CANNED_BEFORE) after, after_sections, after_count = build_side(None, None, None, None, strip, [], canned=CANNED_AFTER) removed, added, resized, renamed, unchanged = bucket(before, after, [], 0) problems = [] if before_count != 5 or after_count != 5: problems.append("nm parse counts: {} / {} (expected 5 / 5)".format(before_count, after_count)) if [r["name"] for r in removed] != ["MobileGL::Gone()"]: problems.append("removed bucket: {}".format([r["name"] for r in removed])) if [r["name"] for r in added] != ["MobileGL::BrandNew()"]: problems.append("added bucket: {}".format([r["name"] for r in added])) if [(r["name"], r["delta"]) for r in resized] != [("MobileGL::Grew()", 0x10)]: problems.append("resized bucket: {}".format([(r["name"], r["delta"]) for r in resized])) # `ProgramObject::LinkArtifacts::Reset` -> `LinkArtifacts::Reset` folds to the same # normalised name at the same size: renamed-only, not added+removed. if [r["name"] for r in renamed] != ["MobileGL::MG_State::GLState::LinkArtifacts::Reset()"]: problems.append("renamed bucket: {}".format([r["name"] for r in renamed])) if unchanged != 2: # ProgramObject::Link() and NoSize() problems.append("unchanged count: {} (expected 2)".format(unchanged)) if before_sections.get(".text") != 1000 or after_sections.get("Total") != 1600: problems.append("size --format=sysv parse: {} / {}".format(before_sections, after_sections)) for problem in problems: say("self-test: " + problem) say("self-test: " + ("OK (2 canned transcripts, 5 buckets)" if not problems else "FAILED")) return 0 if not problems else 1 def main(): parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description=__doc__, formatter_class=argparse.RawDescriptionHelpFormatter) parser.add_argument("--before", help="the baseline libMobileGL.so") parser.add_argument("--after", help="the libMobileGL.so under test") parser.add_argument("--nm", default="nm") parser.add_argument("--size", default="size") parser.add_argument("--cxxfilt", default="c++filt") parser.add_argument("--markdown", default=None, help="write the Markdown report here") parser.add_argument("--json", default=None, help="write the machine-readable result here") parser.add_argument("--strip-scope", action="append", default=[], metavar="PREFIX", help="de-nest this scope in demangled names before comparing: PREFIX " "'A::B::C::' rewrites every 'A::B::C::X' to 'A::B::X' (repeatable). " "This is what folds a de-nesting into a rename instead of an " "added+removed pair, including inside template arguments.") parser.add_argument("--rename-map", action="append", default=[], metavar="OLD=NEW", help="textual OLD=NEW substitution on demangled names (repeatable)") parser.add_argument("--only-names", default=None, help="comma-separated: list only symbols whose demangled text contains one") parser.add_argument("--threshold", type=int, default=0, help="ignore size deltas of at most this many bytes") parser.add_argument("--fail-on-added-bytes", type=int, default=None, help="reserved for a future hard gate; currently informational only") parser.add_argument("--self-test", action="store_true") args = parser.parse_args() if args.self_test: return self_test() if not args.before or not args.after: parser.error("--before and --after are required (or use --self-test)") rename_map = [] for entry in args.rename_map: if "=" not in entry: parser.error("--rename-map expects OLD=NEW, got " + entry) old, new = entry.split("=", 1) rename_map.append((old, new)) only_names = [n.strip() for n in args.only_names.split(",")] if args.only_names else [] before, before_sections, before_count = build_side( args.before, args.nm, args.size, args.cxxfilt, args.strip_scope, rename_map) after, after_sections, after_count = build_side( args.after, args.nm, args.size, args.cxxfilt, args.strip_scope, rename_map) removed, added, resized, renamed, unchanged = bucket(before, after, only_names, args.threshold) before_text = before_sections.get(".text", 0) after_text = after_sections.get(".text", 0) delta = after_text - before_text percent = (100.0 * delta / before_text) if before_text else 0.0 say("before: {} ({} bytes on disk)".format(args.before, os.path.getsize(args.before))) say("after : {} ({} bytes on disk)".format(args.after, os.path.getsize(args.after))) if args.strip_scope: say("strip-scope: " + " ; ".join(args.strip_scope)) if rename_map: say("rename-map: " + " ; ".join("{}={}".format(o, n) for o, n in rename_map)) say(".text {} -> {} ({:+d}, {:+.3f}%)".format(before_text, after_text, delta, percent)) for section in INTERESTING_SECTIONS: if section == ".text": continue b = before_sections.get(section) a = after_sections.get(section) if b is None and a is None: continue say("{} {} -> {} ({:+d})".format(section, b or 0, a or 0, (a or 0) - (b or 0))) say("{} -> {} defined symbols: {} added, {} removed, {} resized, {} renamed".format( before_count, after_count, len(added), len(removed), len(resized), len(renamed))) # The two counts differ by the folding: several mangled symbols can share one # normalised demangled name (local aliases, `.cold` parts, identical-COMDAT clones). say("{} -> {} normalised names, {} unchanged (name, size and mangling all identical)".format( len(before), len(after), unchanged)) if only_names: say("listing restricted to names containing: " + ", ".join(only_names)) if args.fail_on_added_bytes is not None: say("--fail-on-added-bytes is reserved; this run stays informational") lines = ["# MobileGL symbol report", "", "| side | path | file bytes | .text |", "|---|---|---|---|", "| before | `{}` | {} | {} |".format(args.before, os.path.getsize(args.before), before_text), "| after | `{}` | {} | {} |".format(args.after, os.path.getsize(args.after), after_text), "", "`.text` {} -> {} ({:+d}, {:+.3f}%). {} -> {} defined symbols: " "{} added, {} removed, {} resized, {} renamed, {} unchanged.".format( before_text, after_text, delta, percent, before_count, after_count, len(added), len(removed), len(resized), len(renamed), unchanged)] lines += markdown_table("Removed", [(r["name"], r["before"]) for r in removed], ["symbol", "bytes"]) lines += markdown_table("Added", [(r["name"], r["after"]) for r in added], ["symbol", "bytes"]) lines += markdown_table("Resized", [(r["name"], r["before"], r["after"], "{:+d}".format(r["delta"])) for r in resized], ["symbol", "before", "after", "delta"]) lines += markdown_table("Renamed only (same size)", [(r["name"], r["before"], r["after"]) for r in renamed], ["normalised symbol", "before mangling", "after mangling"]) report = "\n".join(lines) + "\n" if args.markdown: with open(args.markdown, "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as handle: handle.write(report) say("markdown written to " + args.markdown) else: print(report) if args.json: with open(args.json, "w", encoding="utf-8", newline="\n") as handle: json.dump({"before": args.before, "after": args.after, "sections_before": before_sections, "sections_after": after_sections, "removed": removed, "added": added, "resized": resized, "renamed": renamed, "unchanged": unchanged}, handle, indent=2) handle.write("\n") say("json written to " + args.json) return 0 if __name__ == "__main__": sys.exit(main())