[PATCH] Fix tst-array* on x86_64
H. J. Lu
hjl@lucon.org
Tue Dec 10 09:43:00 GMT 2002
On Tue, Dec 10, 2002 at 02:52:50PM +0100, Jakub Jelinek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> This is actually the same crap as I had to work around in test-string.h,
> ie. x86_64 aligns preinit_array etc. to 16 bytes because they are >=
> 16 bytes, yet its actual size is 24 bytes.
> /* x86-64 ABI requires arrays greater than 16 bytes to be aligned
> to 16byte boundary. */
> Linker script of course doesn't expect .init_array/.fini_array/.preinit_array
> sections to be more than word aligned and thus the labels around them
> are on wrong positions.
>
> 2002-12-10 Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>
>
> * elf/tst-array1.c (preinit_array, init_array, fini_array):
> Explicitely align the array to sizeof (void *).
> * elf/tst-array2dep.c (init_array, fini_array): Likewise.
>
> --- libc/elf/tst-array1.c.jj 2002-11-07 23:28:04.000000000 +0100
> +++ libc/elf/tst-array1.c 2002-12-10 16:01:54.000000000 +0100
> @@ -35,7 +35,7 @@ preinit_2 (void)
> }
>
> void (*const preinit_array []) (void)
> - __attribute__ ((section (".preinit_array"))) =
> + __attribute__ ((section (".preinit_array"), aligned (sizeof (void *)))) =
> {
> &preinit_0,
> &preinit_1,
I assume size of void * is 8 byte for x86_64. Will it align at 16 byte?
Those *_array sections are special sections. Should they be handled by
gas/ld automatically?
H.J.
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