From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org>
Cc: Generic System V Application Binary Interface
<generic-abi@googlegroups.com>,
Suprateeka R Hegde <hegdesmailbox@gmail.com>,
Cary Coutant <ccoutant@gmail.com>,
Mark Mentovai <mark@chromium.org>,
gnu-gabi@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: What integer type should ELF note header have?
Date: Sun, 01 Jan 2017 00:00:00 -0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrU=2t+ca3zhtN4LhLeqQ8mc381vSwCpdA2zhnXJDiySg@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1513173445.15696.62.camel@klomp.org>
On Wed, Dec 13, 2017 at 5:57 AM, Mark Wielaard <mark@klomp.org> wrote:
> On Mon, 2017-12-11 at 04:11 -0800, H.J. Lu wrote:
>> Changing ELF64_Nhdr is going to be hard, but not impossible. In
>> theory, an 64-bit object may have a note entry which is bigger than 4
>> GB. We can add a new note header:
>>
>> typedef struct
>> {
>> Elf64_Xword n_namesz; /* Length of the note's name. */
>> Elf64_Xword n_descsz; /* Length of the note's descriptor. */
>> Elf64_Xword n_type; /* Type of the note. */
>> } Elf64_Nhdr64;
>>
>> Note segments/sections with 8 byte alignment should use Elf64_Nhdr64.
>> If we want to do it, we should do it now before
>> NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0
>> notes with the existing Elf64_Nhdr are generated by GCC 8 with
>> -fcf-protection -mcet.
>
> Yes, I think having a new note type is the way to go, if we want to
> change the alignment requirements.
>
> BTW. What is the reason you need 8 byte aligned notes?
>
NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0 can have 64-bit integer properties
in 64-bit objects. They should be aligned to 8 bytes. This is
independent of Elf64_Nhdr.
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2017-12-13 18:09 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <CAMe9rOoV5u263JotP=XpiYEzcnjCJOG3U-0X5bnK-WwZoOKTQA@mail.gmail.com>
[not found] ` <99c8440b-54d8-41bc-6e4d-cd1894536bb7@Oracle.COM>
[not found] ` <CAJimCsHE8cMY8MY=BYyQ+o4b14LtQKa2u+SiXWi1o4zBQB9t9Q@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Suprateeka R Hegde
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Ali Bahrami
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Ali Bahrami
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
[not found] ` <3704867e-58b8-3da1-2b29-959ad67a540d@Oracle.COM>
[not found] ` <1513355861.15696.95.camel@klomp.org>
[not found] ` <CAMe9rOrAFX5gPCB355A=vP0VpWQT1x8V3Hrttxm5ZRsvG1FXXw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
[not found] ` <CAMe9rOosYw=9kF8eTUnxwQXNguvCrcK5GSaM=vbUUSA6+J49Zw@mail.gmail.com>
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
2017-01-01 0:00 ` Mark Wielaard
2017-01-01 0:00 ` H.J. Lu
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to='CAMe9rOrU=2t+ca3zhtN4LhLeqQ8mc381vSwCpdA2zhnXJDiySg@mail.gmail.com' \
--to=hjl.tools@gmail.com \
--cc=ccoutant@gmail.com \
--cc=generic-abi@googlegroups.com \
--cc=gnu-gabi@sourceware.org \
--cc=hegdesmailbox@gmail.com \
--cc=mark@chromium.org \
--cc=mark@klomp.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox;
as well as URLs for read-only IMAP folder(s) and NNTP newsgroup(s).