Re: [RESEND PATCH] Makeconfig: Set pie-ccflag to -fPIE by default

[Adhemerval Zanella Netto <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>]

On 25/08/22 18:01, Richard Henderson via Libc-alpha wrote:
> [ I never saw this arrive in the list archives.
>   Trying again with my linaro address subscribed. ]
> 
> We should default to the larger code model, in order to support
> larger applications built with -static -pie.  This should be
> consistent with pic-ccflag, which defaults to -fPIC.
> 
> Remove the now redundant override from sysdeps/sparc/Makefile.
> Note that -fno-pie and -fno-PIE have the same effect.
> 
> ---
> 
> In the case of AArch64, the code changes are small but significant:
> 
>  0000000000000000 <__libc_init_first>:
>     0:  a9bd7bfd        stp     x29, x30, [sp, #-48]!
> -   4:  90000003        adrp    x3, 0 <_GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_>
> -                       4: R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21   _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_
> +   4:  90000003        adrp    x3, 0 <__environ>
> +                       4: R_AARCH64_ADR_GOT_PAGE       __environ
>     8:  90000004        adrp    x4, 0 <__libc_init_first>
>                         8: R_AARCH64_ADR_PREL_PG_HI21   .bss
>     c:  910003fd        mov     x29, sp
>    10:  f9400063        ldr     x3, [x3]
> -                       10: R_AARCH64_LD64_GOTPAGE_LO15 __environ
> +                       10: R_AARCH64_LD64_GOT_LO12_NC  __environ
> 
> In the small model, we are constrained to 15 bits of GOT, with a
> single shared base, _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_.  In the large model,
> each symbol has a page + offset pair.  For small functions like
> this, where there are no other variable references to share the
> common GOT pointer, there is no actual code change.
> 
> r~

I recall that powerpc wanted to use -mcmodel=large, but it would require to
adjust a lot of assembly implementations.  Are we sure this change does not 
trigger any regression with current glibc code?

> ---
>  Makeconfig             | 2 +-
>  sysdeps/sparc/Makefile | 3 ---
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 4 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/Makeconfig b/Makeconfig
> index e78cf220af..f8164a0025 100644
> --- a/Makeconfig
> +++ b/Makeconfig
> @@ -1052,7 +1052,7 @@ pic-ccflag = -fPIC
>  PIC-ccflag = -fPIC
>  endif
>  # This can be changed by a sysdep makefile
> -pie-ccflag = -fpie
> +pie-ccflag = -fPIE
>  no-pie-ccflag = -fno-pie
>  # This one should always stay like this unless there is a very good reason.
>  PIE-ccflag = -fPIE
> diff --git a/sysdeps/sparc/Makefile b/sysdeps/sparc/Makefile
> index 12c2c1b085..26b4a84606 100644
> --- a/sysdeps/sparc/Makefile
> +++ b/sysdeps/sparc/Makefile
> @@ -1,9 +1,6 @@
>  # The Sparc `long double' is a distinct type we support.
>  long-double-fcts = yes
>  
> -pie-ccflag = -fPIE
> -no-pie-ccflag = -fno-PIE
> -
>  ifeq ($(subdir),gmon)
>  sysdep_routines += sparc-mcount
>  endif