powepc64le gold linking problem

[Jay Foad <jay dot foad at gmail dot com>]

Hi,

I'm trying to investigate a problem with gold on powerpc64le linux. I
have a large test program which I can link and run successfully with
ld.bfd, but if I link with ld.gold the test segfaults in a plt stub
because r2 is not set up correctly. I have tracked it down to a call
to _ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev, where it looks like r2 was not set up
correctly.

The calling code looks like:

 2cc:   01 00 00 48     bl      2cc
<_ZN45AddressSanitizer_InternalSimpleDeathTest_Test8TestBodyEv+0x2cc>
                        2cc: R_PPC64_REL24      _ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev

The callee, in a different module, has:

0000000000000000 g     F .text._ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev
0000000000000080 _ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev
0000000000000000 g     F .text._ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev
0000000000000080 0x60 _ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev

Disassembly of section .text._ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev:

0000000000000000 <_ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev>:
   0:   00 00 4c 3c     addis   r2,r12,0
                        0: R_PPC64_REL16_HA     .TOC.
   4:   00 00 42 38     addi    r2,r2,0
                        4: R_PPC64_REL16_LO     .TOC.+0x4
   8:   a6 02 08 7c     mflr    r0
   c:   f8 ff e1 fb     std     r31,-8(r1)
...

After linking with gold, I can see that the call is a bl directly to
the global entry point, which is wrong, isn't it?

000000001002de34 g     F .text  0000000000000080
_ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev
000000001002de34 g     F .text  0000000000000080              0x60
_ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev
...
000000001002de34 <_ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev>:
    1002de34:   13 00 4c 3c     addis   r2,r12,19
    1002de38:   84 aa 42 38     addi    r2,r2,-21884
    1002de3c:   a6 02 08 7c     mflr    r0
    1002de40:   f8 ff e1 fb     std     r31,-8(r1)
...
    100425f8:   3d b8 fe 4b     bl      1002de34 <_ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev>

It seems a bit suspicious that there are two symbols
(_ZN7testing8internal2RED1Ev and _ZN7testing8internal2RED2Ev) with the
same address, but only one of them has st_other set to indicate that
the local entry point is two instructions past the global antry point.

Any ideas? I'm happy to provide a repro but it's currently 32 MB of .o
files (will that fit in bugzilla?).

Thanks!
Jay.