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Re: [Mips}Using DT tags for handling local ifuncs
- From: Richard Sandiford <rdsandiford at googlemail dot com>
- To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at codesourcery dot com>
- Cc: Jack Carter <Jack dot Carter at imgtec dot com>, "binutils\ at sourceware dot org" <binutils at sourceware dot org>, Doug Gilmore <Doug dot Gilmore at imgtec dot com>
- Date: Sun, 12 Jan 2014 09:28:18 +0000
- Subject: Re: [Mips}Using DT tags for handling local ifuncs
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"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@codesourcery.com> writes:
> I'm not sure what to do about sections though -- they are not required in
> final ELF binaries and not interpreted by ld.so, but we keep them and
> therefore have to decide how to handle them. We could merge all the
> original sections into .got, but that could be confusing to some. We
> could keep original .lit4, .sdata, etc. section names, keeping .got for
> the legacy GOT part and choosing a new name for the explicitly relocated
> GOT part. But then the reserved entries wouldn't fit anywhere.
Yeah, I was wondering this too. Things like .lit4 could be handled even
in a multigot object, since there's no ODR problem with duplicating the
contents in each GOT that needs them (i.e. it's not valid to rely on
address equality for .lit4 entries). So for those I think we could
end up with the contents being spread across several GOTs. And in
that case just putting them in .got might be easiest.
Obviously that isn't possible for .sdata and .sbss: we need to keep
the original link order. But in principle we could still put .sdata
in a single secondary GOT.
It wouldn't be trivial to do any of this and to make it coexist with
linker scripts though. I'm not sure it's worth spending too much time
thinking about it unless someone's actually ready to implement it.
And I'm not sure whether .sdata and .sbss would be much of a win in
practice. It would only help with PIEs and DSOs that make relatively
heavy use of a small amount of global state. How many modern DSOs have
that pattern?
> Also what about .sbss? Because of the way ELF segments work that must
> come last in one or in a separate segment; the alternative is converting
> it to all-zero initialised data.
Yeah, it would mean doing the latter. That comes pretty much for free though:
it happens whenever a bss-like section gets stuck behind something else.
Thanks,
Richard