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Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
- From: Michael Matz <matz at suse dot de>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at imgtec dot com>, Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com>, Richard Biener <richard dot guenther at gmail dot com>, Jeff Law <law at redhat dot com>, Cary Coutant <ccoutant at gmail dot com>, Joe Groff <jgroff at apple dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>, GCC <gcc at gcc dot gnu dot org>
- Date: Mon, 18 Apr 2016 19:23:55 +0200 (CEST)
- Subject: Re: Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26 [aka should we revert the fix for 65248]
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Hi,
On Mon, 18 Apr 2016, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > reason is DSO code (also handcoded assembly) may reasonably expect to
> > be able to load the address with a PC-relative load-address type
> > instruction (ADDIUPC, LEA, MOVAB, etc.) and the target may not even
> > have suitable dynamic relocations available to apply any load-time
> > fixup if the symbol referred turns up outside of the DSO. The
> > instruction used may have a PC-relative range limit too.
>
> That is why protected visibility is such a mess.
Not mess, but it comes with certain limitations. And that's okay. It's
intended as an optimization, and it should do that optimization if
requested, and error out if it can't be done for whatever reason.
E.g. one limitation might very well be that function pointer comparison
for protected functions doesn't work (gives different outcomes if the
pointer is built from inside the exe or from a shared lib). (No matter
how it's built, it will still _work_ when called). Alternatively we can
make comparison work (by using the exe PLT slot), in which case Alans
testcase will need more complications to show that protected visibility
currently is broken. Alans testcase will work right now (as in showing
protected being broken) on data symbols.
Ciao,
Michael.