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Re: [GOLD] ifunc tests


On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 4:12 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 06, 2013 at 03:44:41PM -0800, Ian Lance Taylor wrote:
>> On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 3:39 PM, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>> > Yes, we do the same on powerpc (*), but it only works for relocs in a
>> > single binary, not when the ifunc relocation in a shared library uses
>> > a resolver function in another shared library or the main app.  In
>> > that case GOT relocs may not have been applied.  Exactly this
>> > situation occurs in ifuncmain6pie/ifuncmod6.so.
>>
>> Argh.
>>
>> OK, next (unrelated) thought: perhaps the PPC code should just safely
>> retrieve global into a local variable, rather than writing the whole
>> switch statement in assembler.
>>
>>   int i;
>> #ifdef __powerpc__
>>   asm
>> #else
>>   i = global;
>> #endif
>>   switch (i)
>
> Funny enough, I wrote the ifunc-sel.h modifications that way first.
> Then I looked at glibc/sysdeps/powerpc/ifunc-sel.h, and decided to
> import that in case someone decides to copy more ifunc tests from
> glibc..

Well, this is OK, I guess.

Ian


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