[PATCH] gold: Add -z noreloc-overflow option
H.J. Lu
hjl.tools@gmail.com
Mon Nov 2 18:53:07 GMT 2020
On Mon, Nov 2, 2020 at 10:05 AM Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
>
> > + case elfcpp::R_X86_64_32S:
> > + // -z noreloc-overflow
> > + if (parameters->options().noreloc_overflow())
> > + return;
> > + // Fall through.
> > +
> > default:
> > // This prevents us from issuing more than one error per reloc
> > // section. But we can still wind up issuing more than one
>
> This will issue the wrong error message in the normal (check overflow)
> case, won't it? You'll get "requires unsupported dynamic reloc"
> instead of "requires R_X86_64_32S reloc which may overflow at
> runtime".
Since R_X86_64_32S is handled by the default label, the error
message without -z noreloc-overflow is unchanged.
> Also, shouldn't -z noreloc-overflow turn off link-time overflow
> checking? All this patch does is disable the warning about a possible
> overflow at runtime. If that's all you want, I think the option is
> misnamed.
>
This patch disables overflow checks for R_X86_64_32S and
R_X86_64_32 as the tests show.
--
H.J.
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