MIPS textrel fix
David Daney
ddaney@avtrex.com
Fri May 19 09:26:00 GMT 2006
Thiemo Seufer wrote:
> David Daney wrote:
>
>>Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
>>
>>>While stuck offline earlier today, I revisited the textrel-1 MIPS
>>>failure. Eric originally tried setting DF_TEXTREL during section
>>>relocation, but it's too late: we add the entry in size_dynamic_sections.
>>>But I couldn't see any other way to get it right, since there's no
>>>hook to predict whether elf-eh-frame.c will eliminate a relocation.
>>>
>>>The easiest approach I found was to annul the DT_TEXTREL and DT_FLAGS
>>>changes in finish_dynamic_sections if no text relocations were
>>>actually generated. This is not immensely pretty, but does work.
>>>OK?
>>>
>>>For background, the problem arises from the use of absolute addresses
>>>in .eh_frame. In this case, they're being produced by gas CFI
>>>directives. Is there a reason we can't mix and match encodings?
>>>i.e. why not have gas use a PC-relative format? I'm sure there's
>>>a reason, but I can't think of it...
>>>
>>
>>Could it be related to the reason that GCC no longer generates a
>>PC-relative .eh_frame?
>>
>>I never fully understood the reason, but I think it has to do with
>>MIPS-ELF specifications not allowing the needed relocation types (even
>>though they work well in binutils/glibc/linux).
>
>
> The needed relocation types were originally defined for embedded PIC
> MIPS and are not available in the ABI spec, their use for eh_frame
> was an accident. When the removal of embedded PIC support broke the
> toolchain, the fix chosen was to become ABI compatible again.
>
Not to beat a dead horse, but it would be nice to have a gnu extension
that allows us to have read-only eh_frame sections. Large C++ shared
libraries have way to many relocations. It is a lot of dirty pages in
the name of ABI compliance.
David Daney.
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