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From: Jim Wilson <jimw@sifive.com>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: GCC Patches <gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org>
Subject: Re: V3 [PATCH 0/2] Switch to a new section if the SECTION_RETAIN bit doesn't match
Date: Wed, 9 Dec 2020 18:08:37 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAFyWVaZVQUHnbEj8HSCe0QQMh3ButdPRLvZfLnWzGCDe7+LX3Q@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201208125128.775313-1-hjl.tools@gmail.com>

On Tue, Dec 8, 2020 at 4:51 AM H.J. Lu via Gcc-patches <
gcc-patches@gcc.gnu.org> wrote:

> When SECTION_RETAIN is used, definitions marked with used attribute and
> unmarked definitions are placed in a section with the same name.  Instead
> of issue an error:
>

Have you tested glibc builds with this patch?  I noticed yesterday that
your earlier patch had broken glibc builds, and was about to raise a bug
report for that.  I'm seeing

In file included from <command-line>:
gconv_db.c: In function 'free_mem':
gconv_db.c:831:18: error: 'free_mem' causes a section type conflict with
'free_derivation'
  831 | libc_freeres_fn (free_mem)
      |                  ^~~~~~~~
./../include/libc-symbols.h:316:15: note: in definition of macro
'libc_freeres_fn'
  316 |   static void name (void)
      |               ^~~~
gconv_db.c:174:1: note: 'free_derivation' was declared here
  174 | free_derivation (void *p)
      | ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

This is because free_derivation and free_mem are in the same section, but
free_mem has attribute used and free_derivation does not.

This patch is changing the error to a warning, which I think solves the
problem unless --enable-werror is used, which is probably good enough.  We
could maybe decide that what glibc is doing is wrong and fix glibc to use
different section names or mark both functions as attribute used.

Jim

  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-12-10  2:08 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-08 12:51 H.J. Lu
2020-12-08 12:51 ` V3 [PATCH 1/2] " H.J. Lu
2020-12-14 11:17   ` Vaseeharan Vinayagamoorthy
2020-12-15  1:06   ` Jeff Law
2020-12-15  2:07     ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-08 12:51 ` V3 [PATCH 2/2] Warn used and not used symbols in section with the same name H.J. Lu
2020-12-10  2:08 ` Jim Wilson [this message]
2020-12-10  2:14   ` V3 [PATCH 0/2] Switch to a new section if the SECTION_RETAIN bit doesn't match H.J. Lu
2020-12-10  3:12     ` Jim Wilson
2020-12-13 16:03 ` PING^1: " H.J. Lu

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