Preventing preemption of 'protected' symbols in GNU ld 2.26

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Mar 24, 2016 at 9:56 AM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>> What you are proposing is to disallow copy relocation against
>> protected symbol.  Am I correct?
>
> Yes. That's what PR gold/19823 is about. I claim that GCC PR 55012
> should have been resolved as "working as intended", and that your
> patches for GCC PR 65248 should never have been applied (curiously, I
> can't find any actual approval for the GCC patch). I'm sorry I missed
> those conversations -- I would have raised bloody hell at the time.
> I'm surprised that no one else did.
>

What relocation do you propose to access external protected
symbol on x86 for non-PIC code?

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H.J.