Release 2.35 on Friday 24th ?

[H.J. Lu]

On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 7:13 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Jul 23, 2020 at 03:51:29PM +0100, Nick Clifton wrote:
> > Hi Guys,
> >
> >   I know that I proposed an earlier release date for 2.35, but
> >   there were some last minute issues that held things up and I
> >   have not actually created the tarballs yet.  I think that these
> >   have all been resolved now, so does anyone have any objections
> >   to my making the release tomorrow - Friday Jul 24 ?
>
> I've been looking at gold a little, due to porting the --power10-stubs
> option across to gold.
>
> Gold isn't in good shape when using modern gcc and glibc.  On
> x86_64-linux I see lots of "unknown program property type 0xc0010001
> in .note.gnu.property section" when attempting to build the
> testsuite.

I have submitted:

commit 31faf113b4a8187dc5900ec02d25b6f7f3f49394
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 16 10:40:26 2018 -0700

    gold: Properly align the NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0 note

commit 567435b78e1b7a0198ac052ed72b2cb36e29d3ea
Author: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Date:   Thu Aug 9 17:02:42 2018 -0700

    gold: Support GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_2_[USED|NEEDED]

> On powerpc64le-linux, I see quite a few segfaults with compilers that
> default to PIE, one reason being that gold emits absolute symbols for
> addresses in the executable, eg. __ehdr_start, that are not relocated
> with a modern glibc.  Other errors with PIEs appear to be due to bugs
> in powerpc.cc, eg. script_test_12 doesn't put a dynamic reloc on the
> address of test_array_start.
>
> --
> Alan Modra
> Australia Development Lab, IBM



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H.J.