[PATCH] testsuite: require libc sym for -shared

[PATCH] testsuite: require libc sym for -shared

[Alexandre Oliva]

Targets whose binutils support -shared, but that don't have a shared
libc, and that can't add PDC (non-PIC) to shared libraries, may
succeed at the effective target test for -shared, because it brings
nothing from libc, but tests that rely on -shared and that use bits
from libc, such as g++.dg/lto/pr108772, fail despite requiring the
shared effective target.

Extend the effective target test to bring malloc() from libc, that's
likely to be present in libc and bring a substantial amount of code if
no shared libc is available.

Regstrapped on x86_64-linux-gnu, also tested on aarch64-elf with gcc-13,
where the problem was observed.  Ok to install?


for  gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog

	* lib/target-supports.exp (check_effective_target_shared):
	Check for a static-only libc.
---
 gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp |   10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp b/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
index 73360cd3a0d55..213dad355a6a5 100644
--- a/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
+++ b/gcc/testsuite/lib/target-supports.exp
@@ -1391,10 +1391,16 @@ proc check_effective_target_aarch64_tlsle32 { } {
 proc check_effective_target_shared { } {
     # Note that M68K has a multilib that supports -fpic but not
     # -fPIC, so we need to check both.  We test with a program that
-    # requires GOT references.
+    # requires GOT references, and with a libc symbol that would
+    # bring in significant parts of a static-only libc.  Absent a
+    # shared libc, this would make -shared tests fail, so we don't
+    # want to enable the shared effective target then.
     return [check_no_compiler_messages shared executable {
+	#include <stdlib.h>
 	extern int foo (void); extern int bar;
-	int baz (void) { return foo () + bar; }
+	char *baz (void) {
+	    return foo () + (char*) malloc (bar);
+	}
     } "-shared -fpic"]
 }
 

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Re: [PATCH] testsuite: require libc sym for -shared

[Jeff Law]

On 1/23/24 00:15, Alexandre Oliva wrote:
> 
> Targets whose binutils support -shared, but that don't have a shared
> libc, and that can't add PDC (non-PIC) to shared libraries, may
> succeed at the effective target test for -shared, because it brings
> nothing from libc, but tests that rely on -shared and that use bits
> from libc, such as g++.dg/lto/pr108772, fail despite requiring the
> shared effective target.
> 
> Extend the effective target test to bring malloc() from libc, that's
> likely to be present in libc and bring a substantial amount of code if
> no shared libc is available.
> 
> Regstrapped on x86_64-linux-gnu, also tested on aarch64-elf with gcc-13,
> where the problem was observed.  Ok to install?
> 
> 
> for  gcc/testsuite/ChangeLog
> 
> 	* lib/target-supports.exp (check_effective_target_shared):
> 	Check for a static-only libc.
OK
jeff