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From: Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>
To: Kaylee Blake <klkblake@gmail.com>
Cc: Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: RFC: [PATCH] ELF: Don't require section header on ELF objects
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2020 12:53:09 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20200309022309.GK5384@bubble.grove.modra.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <0ad58560-3dd4-badd-5661-9f74905a7df3@gmail.com>

On Mon, Mar 09, 2020 at 12:29:48PM +1030, Kaylee Blake wrote:
> On 9/3/20 12:06 pm, H.J. Lu wrote:
> > On Sun, Mar 8, 2020 at 5:05 PM Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com> wrote:
> >> Well we certainly don't do such sorting.  For example, from a freshly
> >> build ld/ld-new --enable-targets=all
> >>
> >>    148: 0000000000f08380     4 OBJECT  GLOBAL DEFAULT   25 opterr@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3)
> >>    149: 0000000000402f80     0 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT  UND calloc@GLIBC_2.2.5 (3)
> >>    150: 0000000000881536    35 FUNC    GLOBAL DEFAULT   13 _obstack_allocated_p
> >>
> > 
> > I will make 2 changes:
> > 
> > 1.  Update -z nosectionheader to guarantee that the last entry in
> > dynamic symbol table
> > is defined.
> > 2.  Update --remove-section-header to issue an error if the last entry
> > in dynamic symbol
> > table is undefined.
> > 
> 
> With some testing, it seems like ld will emit an ordered symbol table
> iff it's using the DT_GNU_HASH hash table style

It doesn't.  The snippet of .dynsym I posted was from a binary with
DT_GNU_HASH.  elflink.c:_bfd_elf_link_renumber_dynsyms should convince
you that any ordering seen is by chance.

>, and my understanding is
> that DT_GNU_HASH in fact requires this behaviour.

Apparently not.  ;-)

> So in that case, we
> don't need to do an additional check, because we only need the ordering
> if we are looking up through DT_GNU_HASH instead of DT_HASH.
> 
> -- 
> Kaylee Blake <klkblake@gmail.com>
> C is the worst language, except for all the others.

-- 
Alan Modra
Australia Development Lab, IBM

  reply	other threads:[~2020-03-09  2:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 37+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-03-08 17:59 H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 18:06 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 23:35   ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:46     ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09  0:02       ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09  0:02       ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09  0:05       ` Alan Modra
2020-03-09  1:36         ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09  1:59           ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09  2:23             ` Alan Modra [this message]
2020-03-09  2:35               ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09  4:14                 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09  4:59                   ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 11:56                 ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:24 ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-08 23:29   ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-08 23:38     ` Alan Modra
2020-03-08 23:45       ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-12  2:14         ` Fangrui Song
2020-03-09  8:13 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 12:54   ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:06     ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:14       ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:16         ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:28           ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:29             ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:45               ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 13:54                 ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 14:02                   ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 14:52                 ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 15:07                   ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 15:29                     ` Florian Weimer
2020-03-09 13:44     ` Alan Modra
2020-03-09 13:54       ` Kaylee Blake
2020-03-09 22:34         ` Alan Modra
2020-03-10  0:14           ` H.J. Lu
2020-03-09 14:34       ` Michael Matz

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