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Re: secureplt breaks ld on Alpha Linux
- From: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- To: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat dot com>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, bug-binutils at gnu dot org
- Date: Sun, 31 Aug 2014 20:58:23 -0700
- Subject: Re: secureplt breaks ld on Alpha Linux
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On 08/30/2014 06:46 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> The only possibility to save them is in the code at the beginning of
> _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ - do you think it would be possible to save the
> registers on the stack here? Or, would it cause unwind problems?
It wouldn't work.
> What exactly these anotations do? Do they turn off lazy binding?
Yes. Other examples include _mcount, and the division routines.
r~