secureplt breaks ld on Alpha Linux

Richard Henderson rth@twiddle.net
Mon Sep 1 03:58:00 GMT 2014


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.

> What exactly these anotations do? Do they turn off lazy binding?

Yes.  Other examples include _mcount, and the division routines.


r~



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