[PATCH] Allow memset local PLT reference for RISC-V.

[Florian Weimer]

* Alistair Francis:

> On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 9:39 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>>
>> * Alistair Francis:
>>
>> > On Mon, Jun 29, 2020 at 9:30 AM Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
>> >>
>> >> * Alistair Francis:
>> >>
>> >> > There is also a PLT memset in libc_pic.a
>> >> >
>> >> >  1bc:   009aa023                sw      s1,0(s5)
>> >> >           memset (result->__data, '\0',
>> >> >  1c0:   865e                    mv      a2,s7
>> >> >  1c2:   4581                    li      a1,0
>> >> >  1c4:   008a8513                addi    a0,s5,8
>> >> >  1c8:   00000097                auipc   ra,0x0
>> >> >                         1c8: R_RISCV_CALL_PLT   __GI_memset
>> >> >                         1c8: R_RISCV_RELAX      *ABS*
>> >> >  1cc:   000080e7                jalr    ra # 1c8 <.LVL39+0x14>
>> >>
>> >> That's weird.  What does a direct call (to a hidden symbol) look like,
>> >> relocation-wise.
>> >
>> > I'm not sure. How can I figure out?
>>
>> Look at different internal calls, e.g. __twalk_r and __libc_updwtmp (for
>> two variants, one with a hidden prototype and one without).
>
> Here is what I see from the libc_pic.a lib.
>
> __twalk_r
>
> 00000000         *UND*  00000000 __GI___twalk_r
> ...
>   __twalk_r (loaded, do_release_shlib, handle);
>  1b2:   4088                    lw      a0,0(s1)
>  1b4:   8622                    mv      a2,s0
>  1b6:   00000597                auipc   a1,0x0
>                         1b6: R_RISCV_PCREL_HI20 do_release_shlib
>                         1b6: R_RISCV_RELAX      *ABS*
>  1ba:   00058593                mv      a1,a1
>                         1ba: R_RISCV_PCREL_LO12_I       .L0
>                         1ba: R_RISCV_RELAX      *ABS*
>  1be:   00000097                auipc   ra,0x0
>                         1be: R_RISCV_CALL       __GI___twalk_r
>                         1be: R_RISCV_RELAX      *ABS*
>  1c2:   000080e7                jalr    ra # 1be <.L52+0xc>
>
> __libc_updwtmp
>
> 000009c0 g     F .text  00000124 .hidden __libc_updwtmp
> ...
> 00000064 <.LVL8>:
>   64:   0141                    addi    sp,sp,16
>   __libc_updwtmp (file_name, utmp);
>   66:   00000317                auipc   t1,0x0
>                         66: R_RISCV_CALL        __libc_updwtmp
>                         66: R_RISCV_RELAX       *ABS*
>   6a:   00030067                jr      t1 # 66 <.LVL8+0x2>

Okay, then the memcpy symbol hack does not work on RISC-V, and it's
worth fixing that.

It would be interesting to build iconv/gconv_open.c with --save-temps
and see what exactly ends up in the assembler file (and also what the
preprocessed sources look like).

Thanks,
Florian