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Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26
- From: Joe Groff <jgroff at apple dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Thu, 24 Mar 2016 10:06:28 -0700
- Subject: Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26
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> On Mar 24, 2016, at 10:04 AM, H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>>> What you are proposing is to disallow copy relocation against
>>> protected symbol. Am I correct?
>>
>> Yes. That's what PR gold/19823 is about. I claim that GCC PR 55012
>> should have been resolved as "working as intended", and that your
>> patches for GCC PR 65248 should never have been applied (curiously, I
>> can't find any actual approval for the GCC patch). I'm sorry I missed
>> those conversations -- I would have raised bloody hell at the time.
>> I'm surprised that no one else did.
>>
>
> What relocation do you propose to access external protected
> symbol on x86 for non-PIC code?
Non-PIC code can still use a GOT, can't it?
-Joe