ix86 targets without BFD64
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Oct 23 11:13:00 GMT 2017
On Sun, Oct 22, 2017 at 11:53 PM, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> there being quite a few BFD64 conditionals in tc-i386.c, I would
> conclude that things are supposed to work fine when doing a
> purely 32-bit build (which happen to result when I cross build on
> cygwin, but of course by not forcing --enable-64-bit-bfd I can
> also see this on a native Linux build on a 32-bit distro). Yet each of
> the last two lines of
>
> .text
> _start:
> mov 0x87654321, %eax
> mov $0x87654321, %eax
>
> .code64
> movabs 0x87654321, %al
> movabs $0x87654321, %rax
>
> trigger the abort() in offset_in_range(). Since the chosen target
> automatically enables elf32_x86_64, the solution can't possibly be
> to disallow .code64 in such a build. All other alternatives I can
> think of would, however, appear to require a full audit of all 64-bit
> immediate / displacement processing in order to make sure all valid
> code (i.e. anything not requiring 64-bit relocations) is accepted.
>
> Thoughts?
We can disable elf32_x86_64 and disallow .code64 if bfd_vma is 32 bit.
--
H.J.
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