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Re: ix86 targets without BFD64


On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there being quite a few BFD64 conditionals in tc-i386.c, I would
> conclude that things are supposed to work fine when doing a
> purely 32-bit build (which happen to result when I cross build on
> cygwin, but of course by not forcing --enable-64-bit-bfd I can
> also see this on a native Linux build on a 32-bit distro). Yet each of
> the last two lines of
>
>         .text
> _start:
>         mov     0x87654321, %eax
>         mov     $0x87654321, %eax
>
>         .code64
>         movabs  0x87654321, %al
>         movabs  $0x87654321, %rax
>
> trigger the abort() in offset_in_range(). Since the chosen target
> automatically enables elf32_x86_64, the solution can't possibly be
> to disallow .code64 in such a build. All other alternatives I can
> think of would, however, appear to require a full audit of all 64-bit
> immediate / displacement processing in order to make sure all valid
> code (i.e. anything not requiring 64-bit relocations) is accepted.
>
> Thoughts?

We can disable elf32_x86_64 and disallow .code64 if bfd_vma is 32 bit.

-- 
H.J.


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