bfdlink.h has
/* Symbol will be converted from absolute to section-relative. Set for
symbols defined by a script from "dot" (also SEGMENT_START or ORIGIN)
outside of an output section statement. */
unsigned int rel_from_abs : 1;
linker.c has
.{* Return TRUE if the symbol described by a linker hash entry H
. is going to be absolute. Linker-script defined symbols can be
. converted from absolute to section-relative ones late in the
. link. Use this macro to correctly determine whether the symbol
. will actually end up absolute in output. *}
.#define bfd_is_abs_symbol(H) \
. (((H)->type == bfd_link_hash_defined \
. || (H)->type == bfd_link_hash_defweak) \
. && bfd_is_abs_section ((H)->u.def.section) \
. && !(H)->rel_from_abs)
.
Set rel_from_abs to 1 for __ehdr_start which will be converted from
absolute to section-relative in assign_file_positions_for_load_sections.
PR ld/26869
* ldelf.c (ldelf_before_allocation): Set rel_from_abs to 1 for
__ehdr_start.
* testsuite/ld-i386/i386.exp: Run pr26869.
* testsuite/ld-i386/pr26869.d: New file.
* testsuite/ld-i386/pr26869.s: Likewise.
Check bfd_target_elf_flavour on input first in ldelf_after_open before
checking elf_tdata.
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Check bfd_target_elf_flavour first.
When excluding SHF_LINK_ORDER sections that happen to have SEC_KEEP
set, we need to set SEC_EXCLUDE here to avoid a problem later.
* ldelf.c (ldelf_before_place_orphans): Set SEC_EXCLUDE for
discarded sections.
Fix a regression from commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any
attempt to link in an executable is made.") and do not reject ET_EXEC
input supplied with the `--just-symbols' option. Such use is legitimate
as the file requested is not actually linked and only the symbols are
extracted. Furthermore it is often the most useful application, as
already observed in our documentation for the option, where it allows
"to refer symbolically to absolute locations of memory defined in other
programs."
Provide a set of tests for the use of ET_EXEC with `--just-symbols'.
These are excluded however for SH/PE targets because they complain if a
section's VMA is 0:
ld: zero vma section reloc detected: `.text' #0 f=32795
ld: zero vma section reloc detected: `.data' #1 f=291
and for x86_64/PE targets because they seem to hardwire the VMA:
100000000 12000000 01000000 00000000 00000000 ................
ld/
PR ld/26288
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Do not reject ET_EXEC input
supplied with `--just-symbols'.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols.exp: New test script.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-1.dd: New test dump.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols.ld: New test linker script.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-0.s: New test source.
* testsuite/ld-misc/just-symbols-1.s: New test source.
Revert commit a3fc941881 ("Stop the linker from accepting executable
ELF files as inputs to other links."), which has been made obsolete by
commit a87e1817a4 ("Have the linker fail if any attempt to link in an
executable is made."). An earlier check triggers added with the latter
commit making the piece of code removed dead.
ld/
PR ld/26288
Revert:
PR 26047
* ldelf.c (ldelf_after_open): Fail if attempting to link one
executable into another.
Not just SHF_EXCLUDE but any of these flags ought to prevent merging
of sections for ld -r.
* ldelf.c (elf_orphan_compatible): Return false when two sections
have differing SHF_MASKPROC or SHF_MASKOS flags.
This patch delays setting up DT_NEEDED dynamic tags until all object
files and libraries have been opened and their symbols processed,
rather than adding the tags while processing symbols. Tags are
ordered according to the position of the associated library on the
command line and linker scripts. It is still possible with
--as-needed libs that are mentioned more than once for tags to be
ordered according to which mention was needed. For example with
"--as-needed a.so b.so c.so b.so" when b.so is not needed by a.so or
any other prior object file but is needed by c.so, the order of tags
will be "A C B".
bfd/
PR 25593
* elf-bfd.h (struct elf_link_hash_table): Rename "loaded" to
"dyn_loaded".
(bfd_elf_add_dt_needed_tag): Declare.
* elf-strtab.c (_bfd_elf_strtab_restore): Handle NULL buf.
* elflink.c (bfd_elf_add_dt_needed_tag): Make global and rename
from elf_add_dt_needed_tag. Remove soname and doit param.
(elf_link_add_object_symbols): Don't use elf_add_dt_needed_tag
to see whether as-needed lib is already loaded, use dyn_loaded
list instead. When saving and restoring around as-needed lib
handle possibility that dynstr has not been initialised. Don't
add DT_NEEDED tags here. Limit dyn_loaded list to dynamic libs.
Mark libs loaded via DT_NEEDED entries of other libs with
DYN_NO_NEEDED if they should not be mentioned in DT_NEEDED of
the output.
(elf_link_check_versioned_symbol): Remove now unneccesary
DYNAMIC check when traversing dyn_loaded list.
ld/
PR 25593
* ldelf.c (ldelf_try_needed): Add DT_NEEDED lib to input_bfds.
(ldelf_after_open): Save state of input_bfds list before loading
DT_NEEDED libs. Traverse input_bfds list adding DT_NEEDED tags.
Restore input_bfds list.
* testsuite/ld-cris/gotplt1.d: Adjust for changed .dynstr order.
I reckon it's quite OK to write &p->field in C when p might be NULL,
and lots of old C programmers probably agree with me. However, ubsan
disagrees and so do some people I respect. I suspect C++ influence is
to blame for the ubsan behaviour. See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92634. So far no one has
educated me as to why I'm wrong to claim that there isn't anything in
the C standard to say that p->field is always (*p).field. Note 79
doesn't quite do that because it doesn't cover null pointers. If
there was such an equivalence then you could claim &p->field has a
null pointer reference when p is NULL, even though no C compiler would
ever dereference p.
Anyway, to silence ubsan I'm going to apply the following though I
prefer to avoid casts when possible. And I'm using (void *)
deliberately because this is C, not C++!
* ldlang.c (lang_output_section_find_by_flags): Don't use &p->field
when p might be NULL.
* ldelf.c (output_rel_find, ldelf_place_orphan): Likewise.
(insert_os_after, lang_insert_orphan, lookup_name): Likewise.
(strip_excluded_output_sections, lang_clear_os_map): Likewise.
(lang_check, lang_for_each_input_file): Likewise.
(lang_reset_memory_regions, find_replacements_insert_point): Likewise.
(find_rescan_insertion, lang_propagate_lma_regions): Likewise.
(lang_record_phdrs): Likewise.
* emultempl/alphaelf.em (alpha_after_open): Likewise.
* emultempl/mmo.em (mmo_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pep.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/ppc32elf.em (ppc_after_check_relocs): Likewise.
* emultempl/spuelf.em (spu_before_allocation): Likewise.
(embedded_spu_file): Likewise.
This is quite complicated because the CTF section's contents depend on
the final contents of the symtab and strtab, because it has two sections
whose contents are shuffled to be in 1:1 correspondence with the symtab,
and an internal strtab that gets deduplicated against the ELF strtab
(with offsets adjusted to point into the ELF strtab instead). It is
also compressed if large enough, so its size depends on its contents!
So we cannot construct it as early as most sections: we cannot even
*begin* construction until after the symtab and strtab are finalized.
Thankfully there is already one section treated similarly: compressed
debugging sections: the only differences are that compressed debugging
sections have extra handling to deal with their changing name if
compressed (CTF sections are always called ".ctf" for now, though we
have reserved ".ctf.*" against future use), and that compressed
debugging sections have previously-uncompressed content which has to be
stashed away for later compression, while CTF sections have no content
at all until we generate it (very late).
BFD also cannot do the link itself: libctf knows how to do it, and BFD
cannot call libctf directly because libctf already depends on bfd for
file I/O. So we have to use a pair of callbacks, one, examine_strtab,
which allows a caller to examine the symtab and strtab after
finalization (called from elf_link_swap_symbols_out(), right before the
symtabs are written, and after the strtab has been finalized), and one
which actually does the emission (called emit_ctf simply because it is
grouped with a bunch of section-specific late-emission function calls at
the bottom of bfd_elf_final_link, and a section-specific name seems best
for that). emit_ctf is actually called *twice*: once from lang_process
if the emulation suggests that this bfd target does not examine the
symtab or strtab, and once via a bfd callback if it does. (This means
that non-ELF targets still get CTF emitted, even though the late CTF
emission stage is never called for them).
v2: merged with non-ELF support patch: slight commit message
adjustments.
v3: do not spend time merging CTF, or crash, if the CTF section is
explicitly discarded. Do not try to merge or compress CTF unless
linking.
v4: add CTF_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD. Annul the freed input ctf_file_t's
after writeout: set SEC_IN_MEMORY on the output contents so a future
bfd enhancement knows it could free it. Add SEC_LINKER_CREATED |
SEC_KEEP to avoid having to add .ctf to the linker script. Drop
now-unnecessary ldlang.h-level elf-bfd.h include and hackery around
it. Adapt to elf32.em->elf.em and elf-generic.em->ldelf*.c
changes.
v5: fix tabdamage. Drop #inclusions in .h files: include in .c files,
.em files, and use struct forwards instead. Use bfd_section_is_ctf
inline function rather than SECTION_IS_CTF macro. Move a few
comments.
* Makefile.def (dependencies): all-ld depends on all-libctf.
* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
include/
* bfdlink.h (elf_strtab_hash): New forward.
(elf_sym_strtab): Likewise.
(struct bfd_link_callbacks <examine_strtab>): New.
(struct bfd_link_callbacks <emit_ctf>): Likewise.
bfd/
* elf-bfd.h (bfd_section_is_ctf): New inline function.
* elf.c (special_sections_c): Add ".ctf".
(assign_file_positions_for_non_load_sections): Note that
compressed debugging sections etc are not assigned here. Treat
CTF sections like SEC_ELF_COMPRESS sections when is_linker_output:
sh_offset -1.
(assign_file_positions_except_relocs): Likewise.
(find_section_in_list): Note that debugging and CTF sections, as
well as reloc sections, are assigned later.
(_bfd_elf_assign_file_positions_for_non_load): CTF sections get
their size and contents updated.
(_bfd_elf_set_section_contents): Skip CTF sections: unlike
compressed sections, they have no uncompressed content to copy at
this stage.
* elflink.c (elf_link_swap_symbols_out): Call the examine_strtab
callback right before the strtab is written out.
(bfd_elf_final_link): Don't cache the section contents of CTF
sections: they are not populated yet. Call the emit_ctf callback
right at the end, after all the symbols and strings are flushed
out.
ld/
* ldlang.h: (struct lang_input_statement_struct): Add the_ctf.
(struct elf_sym_strtab): Add forward.
(struct elf_strtab_hash): Likewise.
(ldlang_ctf_apply_strsym): Declare.
(ldlang_write_ctf_late): Likewise.
* ldemul.h (ldemul_emit_ctf_early): New.
(ldemul_examine_strtab_for_ctf): Likewise.
(ld_emulation_xfer_type) <emit_ctf_early>: Likewise.
(ld_emulation_xfer_type) <examine_strtab_for_ctf>: Likewise.
* ldemul.c (ldemul_emit_ctf_early): New.
(ldemul_examine_strtab_for_ctf): Likewise.
* ldlang.c: Include ctf-api.h.
(CTF_COMPRESSION_THRESHOLD): New.
(ctf_output): New. Initialized in...
(ldlang_open_ctf): ... this new function. Open all the CTF
sections in the input files: mark them non-loaded and empty
so as not to copy their contents to the output, but linker-created
so the section gets created in the target.
(ldlang_merge_ctf): New, merge types via ctf_link_add_ctf and
ctf_link.
(ldlang_ctf_apply_strsym): New, an examine_strtab callback: wrap
ldemul_examine_strtab_for_ctf.
(lang_write_ctf): New, write out the CTF section.
(ldlang_write_ctf_late): New, late call via bfd's emit_ctf hook.
(lang_process): Call ldlang_open_ctf, ldlang_merge_ctf, and
lang_write_ctf.
* ldmain.c (link_callbacks): Add ldlang_ctf_apply_strsym,
ldlang_write_ctf_late.
* emultempl/aix.em: Add ctf-api.h.
* emultempl/armcoff.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/beos.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/elf.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/generic.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/linux.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/msp430.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/pe.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/pep.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/ticoff.em: Likewise.
* emultempl/vanilla.em: Likewise.
* ldcref.c: Likewise.
* ldctor.c: Likewise.
* ldelf.c: Likewise.
* ldelfgen.c: Likewise.
* ldemul.c: Likewise.
* ldexp.c: Likewise.
* ldfile.c: Likewise.
* ldgram.c: Likewise.
* ldlex.l: Likewise.
* ldmain.c: Likewise.
* ldmisc.c: Likewise.
* ldver.c: Likewise.
* ldwrite.c: Likewise.
* lexsup.c: Likewise.
* mri.c: Likewise.
* pe-dll.c: Likewise.
* plugin.c: Likewise.
* ldelfgen.c (ldelf_emit_ctf_early): New.
(ldelf_examine_strtab_for_ctf): tell libctf about the symtab and
strtab.
(struct ctf_strsym_iter_cb_arg): New, state to do so.
(ldelf_ctf_strtab_iter_cb): New: tell libctf about
each string in the strtab in turn.
(ldelf_ctf_symbols_iter_cb): New, tell libctf
about each symbol in the symtab in turn.
* ldelfgen.h (struct elf_sym_strtab): Add forward.
(struct elf_strtab_hash): Likewise.
(struct ctf_file): Likewise.
(ldelf_emit_ctf_early): Declare.
(ldelf_examine_strtab_for_ctf): Likewise.
* emultempl/elf-generic.em (LDEMUL_EMIT_CTF_EARLY): Set it.
(LDEMUL_EXAMINE_STRTAB_FOR_CTF): Likewise.
* emultempl/aix.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Add
emit_ctf_early and examine_strtab_for_ctf, NULL by default.
* emultempl/armcoff.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/beos.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/elf.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/generic.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/linux.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/msp430.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/pe.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/pep.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/ticoff.em (ld_${EMULATION_NAME}_emulation): Likewise.
* emultempl/vanilla.em (ld_vanilla_emulation): Likewise.
* Makefile.am: Pull in libctf (and zlib, a transitive requirement
for compressed CTF section emission). Pass it on to DejaGNU.
* configure.ac: Add AM_ZLIB.
* aclocal.m4: Added zlib.m4.
* Makefile.in: Regenerated.
* testsuite/ld-bootstrap/bootstrap.exp: Use it when relinking ld.
