linker crash in arm stub generation

Christophe LYON christophe.lyon@st.com
Fri Jun 12 14:13:00 GMT 2009


On 12.06.2009 16:06, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:19:21PM +0200, Christophe LYON wrote:
>> I think your patch is not adequate: it will prevent the stub code from  
>> being generated, but the user code will still jump to the stub. So the  
>> link won't fail, but the result will be wrong.
>>
>> Instead, I propose this patch, which prevents mode-switching stub  
>> generation when the call goes through a PLT entry.
>>
>> I think there should already be a test for this in the testsuite, I have  
>> probably forgotten this configuration.
> 
> This looks good to me - and I agree that a test would be helpful!
> 
I'll propose one + proper ChangeLog entry next week.

Christophe.



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