Copy relocations against protected symbols
Cary Coutant
ccoutant@google.com
Thu Dec 18 18:28:00 GMT 2014
> I doubt we'll find any clever solution. The linker defining a copy of
> a variable in .dynbss is quite at odds with protected visibility. For
> example, a protected visibility variable allows a compiler to generate
> shared library code that accesses the variable without a GOT
> indirection. However, it is exactly that GOT indirection that is
> needed for ld.so to make the shared library use the .dynbss copy.
Agreed. It looks like gold has the same problem; I'll commit a patch soon.
-cary
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