[PATCH] libio: Properly link in libio functions in static binaries

Florian Weimer fweimer@redhat.com
Thu Aug 21 18:49:07 GMT 2025


* H. J. Lu:

> commit 3020f72618e4f1d7338cd42b8bc7b2813e961b5a
> Author: Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
> Date:   Tue Dec 27 18:11:43 2022 -0300
>
>     libio: Remove the usage of __libc_IO_vtables
>
> added
>
>  #define libio_static_fn_required(name) __asm (".globl " #name);
>
> to link in libio functions in static binaries.  But there is no relocation
> in
> 	.globl	_IO_file_open
>
> and "strip --strip-unneeded" will remove such unreferenced symbols which
> breaks static binaries.  Redefine libio_static_fn_required to create a
> reference to the required function with
>
> 	.pushsection ".data.rel.ro.local","aw"
> .L_IO_file_open:
> 	.dc.a	_IO_file_open
> 	.popsection
>
> This fixes BZ #33300.

Is it possible to use SHF_RETAIN instead?

Thanks,
Florian



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