From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>, Alan Modra <amodra@gmail.com>,
Michael Matz <matz@suse.de>, Carlos O'Donell <carlos@redhat.com>,
Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>,
Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@port70.net>, Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>,
Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: RFC: Add GNU_PROPERTY_NEED_PHDRS
Date: Mon, 01 Jan 2018 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20181004171640.GE17110@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOpUqsAG0QKL0VvX-dxx2OFU=guP50Uaw_cCA9SThZVFAg@mail.gmail.com>
On Thu, Oct 04, 2018 at 09:33:43AM -0700, H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 4, 2018 at 8:10 AM Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > If you specify PHDRS in a script, ld uses exactly those program
> > > headers, and I believe it should continue to operate that way. So to
> > > add PT_GNU_EH_FRAME, say, when an executable has .eh_frame_hdr, you'd
> > > need a script with PT_GNU_EH_FRAME specified in PHDRS. And another
> > > without PT_GNU_EH_FRAME when the executable doesn't have
> > > .eh_frame_hdr. That soon becomes impractial considering the number of
> > > optional headers, requiring auto-generation of the PHDRS script
> > > snippet.
> >
> > Oh, I see. Yeah, that does make it impractical.
> >
> > Still, I'd like to understand why HJ claims it's intrusive to have ld
> > create a PT_LOAD segment for the headers. I haven't tried it yet in
> > gold (don't support -z separate-code), but it doesn't seem like it
> > would be at all difficult or intrusive.
>
> The linker part is relatively easy. The problems are with strip and
> objcopy. They aren't prepared to deal with it.
Can you elaborate on what would go wrong with them? AIUI they can't
remove anything from segments; they can only remove non-loaded
sections. (I found this out the hard way a long time ago trying to get
strip to remove unneeded .eh_frame)
Rich
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-04 17:17 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-01-01 0:00 H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Michael Matz
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Alan Modra
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Alan Modra
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Cary Coutant
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Rich Felker [this message]
2018-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2018-01-01 0:00 ` Alan Modra
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