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Re: protected data in a DSO with copy relocation
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at hack dot frob dot com>
- To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2014 16:12:04 -0800 (PST)
- Subject: Re: protected data in a DSO with copy relocation
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> On Wed, Dec 17, 2014 at 3:35 PM, Roland McGrath <roland@hack.frob.com> wrote:
> >> If we punt, we need to update the elf/vismain test which fails with
> >> the current ld.
> >
> > In what version did ld's behavior change? Why should it not be considered
>
> It will be binutils 2.26.
glibc 2.22 will be released before binutils 2.26, so I don't think it's
an immediate concern that the binutils trunk is in a dubious state for
building glibc 2.21. We'll harmonize the binutils behavior and the
glibc expectations one way or another shortly after the 2.21 release.
Thanks,
Roland