[PATCH 6/6] aix: implement TLS relocation for gas and ld

[Alan Modra]

On Fri, Mar 05, 2021 at 01:37:17PM +0000, CHIGOT, CLEMENT wrote:
> >> --- a/ld/emultempl/aix.em
> >> +++ b/ld/emultempl/aix.em
> >> @@ -969,6 +969,26 @@ gld${EMULATION_NAME}_before_allocation (void)
> >>          sec->flags |= SEC_KEEP;
> >>        }
> >>  
> >> +  /* Make sure .tdata is removed if empty, even with -r flag.
> >> +     .tdata is always being generated because its size is needed
> >> +     to cumpute .data address.  */
> >> +  if (bfd_link_relocatable (&link_info))
> >> +    {
> >> +      asection *sec;
> >> +
> >> +      sec = bfd_get_section_by_name (link_info.output_bfd,
> >> +                                  ".tdata");
> >
> > Needs a "sec != NULL" test here, and I think even with that this code
> > won't work as you expect.  I might be wrong though, did you test to
> > see whether a non-empty .tdata is kept?
> > 
> >> +      if (sec->rawsize == 0
> >> +       && (sec->flags & SEC_KEEP) == 0
> >> +       && !bfd_section_removed_from_list (link_info.output_bfd,
> >> +                                          sec))
> >> +     {
> >> +       sec->flags |= SEC_EXCLUDE;
> >> +       bfd_section_list_remove (link_info.output_bfd, sec);
> >> +       link_info.output_bfd->section_count--;
> >> +     }
> >> +    }
> >> +
> >>    before_allocation_default ();
> >>  }
> 
> Indeed, a non-empty .tdata is being removed too. 
> My goal here is to avoid having a ".tdata" section in every files generated
> with "-r". The reason why it keeps appearing is because I'm using .tdata size 
> to compute "dot" in aix.sc. 
> I'm sure it can be fixed directly inside aix.sc but I didn't find how, as I need
> to place .tdata before .data and have everything align correctly...  
> Otherwise, any ideas how to detect when .tdata is non-empty there ? 

My guess is that you need to steal some more code from ldlang.c
strip_excluded_output_sections, the block that runs
lang_size_sections.

> 
> Thanks, 
> Clément

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Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM