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Re: secureplt breaks ld on Alpha Linux
- From: Mikulas Patocka <mpatocka at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sourceware dot org, bug-binutils at gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 1 Sep 2014 11:09:54 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: secureplt breaks ld on Alpha Linux
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On Sun, 31 Aug 2014, Richard Henderson wrote:
> On 08/30/2014 06:46 AM, Mikulas Patocka wrote:
> > The only possibility to save them is in the code at the beginning of
> > _PROCEDURE_LINKAGE_TABLE_ - do you think it would be possible to save the
> > registers on the stack here? Or, would it cause unwind problems?
>
> It wouldn't work.
Yes. I would also break __builtin_return_address.
> > What exactly these anotations do? Do they turn off lazy binding?
>
> Yes. Other examples include _mcount, and the division routines.
>
> r~
So, what exactly should be done? Can we hack ld so that if filename is
"libots.so", lazy binding for symbols in this library is turned off
automatically?
Mikulas