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Re: PR20989, sparc GOT sequence optimization


Hi Alan.

    This patch stops sparc ld doing the wrong thing when optimizing loads
    from the GOT to a GOT pointer relative sequence.  Tested by code
    inspection and cross-build of binutils+testsuite as I don't have a
    sparc system handy to do native regression testing.  OK?

    It would be easy to edit these code sequences to avoid the GOT load
    for undefined weak hidden visibility syms by loading a zero inline,
    but I'll leave that to the maintainers.  Also, you might like to check
    why the testcase in the PR didn't signal a relocation overflow..
    
    Oh, and I strongly suspect the same bug exists in gold.
    
    	PR ld/20989
    	* elfxx-sparc.c (gdop_relative_offset_ok): New function.
    	(_bfd_sparc_elf_relocate_section): Use it to validate GOT
    	indirect to GOT pointer relative code edit.
    
    diff --git a/bfd/elfxx-sparc.c b/bfd/elfxx-sparc.c
    index d7b2688..ca43c41 100644
    --- a/bfd/elfxx-sparc.c
    +++ b/bfd/elfxx-sparc.c
    @@ -2927,6 +2927,33 @@ gdopoff (struct bfd_link_info *info, bfd_vma address)
       return address - got_base;
     }
     
    +/* Return whether H is local and its ADDRESS is within 4G of
    +   _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_ and thus the offset may be calculated by a
    +   sethi, xor sequence.  */

Generally speaking the address must be within {+-}2G of
_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_, i.e. there can be negative offsets.

I did an attempt recently to support negative offsets in GNU only to
find that we need some additional GCC support, but I will revisit it
soon.

Otherwise the fix looks good to me.  I tested it in sparc64-linux-gnu
and sparcv9-linux-gnu targets.  No regressions.

Thanks!


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