From: "Peter S. Mazinger" <ps.m@gmx.net>
To: Alan Modra <amodra@bigpond.net.au>
Cc: "Peter S. Mazinger" <mps@bridge.intra>, <binutils@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: weak and strong aliases for global data fail
Date: Wed, 24 May 2006 15:06:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44.0605241443230.26077-100000@lnx.bridge.intra> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060523052712.GC12196@bubble.grove.modra.org>
On Tue, 23 May 2006, Alan Modra wrote:
> On Mon, May 22, 2006 at 10:38:56PM +0200, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> > On Wed, 17 May 2006, Peter S. Mazinger wrote:
> >
> > Could anyone tell me if this is a binutils bug (tested 2.16.1/2.16.92) or
> > I should send it to the gcc list (tested with 3.4.6). It seems to me that
> > it is rather an ld bug.
> >
> > Thanks, Peter
> >
> > > Hello!
> > >
> > > Attached tests show a case, when a final binary is OK if
> > > compiled w/ -fPIC (or -fPIE, it does not have to be ET_DYN, but can be),
> > > else it fails if using aliases (both weak and strong) for global data.
> > >
> > > Sorry for the "big" test cases, I couldn't make them smaller.
>
> It's a user bug. When the linker needs to generate a copy reloc, eg. as
> it does for x86 non-PIC code, for a variable like "optind_test" in your
> main app, then space is allocated in your main app and initialised from
> the shared object. The main app uses this location for references to
> "optind_test", as do references from within the shared lib. However,
> your shared lib is not referencing "optind_test" but an alias stored at
> a different location (in the shared lib).
>
> With PIC code the linker can generally dispense with the copy reloc, so
> both the main app and the shared lib use the same location.
The app is a simplified version of getopt() used in glibc, but it happens
with getopt.c from glibc as well. I have only renamed the internally
used opt* to __opt* and provided a weak resp. strong alias to the
externally visible version (also renamed to opt*_test so that it does not
conflict with the libc provided getopt interface).
Peter
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-05-24 13:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-05-17 17:02 Peter S. Mazinger
2006-05-23 0:12 ` Peter S. Mazinger
2006-05-23 9:35 ` Alan Modra
2006-05-24 15:06 ` Peter S. Mazinger [this message]
2006-05-24 17:05 ` Alan Modra
2006-05-23 10:29 ` Mike Frysinger
2006-05-24 15:34 ` Peter S. Mazinger
2006-05-26 2:44 ` Mike Frysinger
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