Copy relocations against protected symbols

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Dec 18, 2014 at 10:28 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
>> 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.
>

Should we simply disallow creating DSO with protected data on targets
with copy relocation?

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H.J.