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From: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
To: Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Set the retain attribute on _elf_set_element if CC supports [BZ #27492]
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2021 08:28:18 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <878s6ozxil.fsf@oldenburg.str.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210315011050.309228-1-maskray@google.com> (Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha's message of "Sun, 14 Mar 2021 18:10:50 -0700")

* Fangrui Song via Libc-alpha:

> So that text_set_element/data_set_element/bss_set_element defined
> variables will be retained by the linker.
>
> Note: 'used' and 'retain' are orthogonal: 'used' makes sure the variable
> will not be optimized out; 'retain' prevents section garbage collection
> if the linker support SHF_GNU_RETAIN.

This needs recent-ish GCC 11, see commit 6347f4a0904fce17e ("Add retain
attribute to place symbols in SHF_GNU_RETAIN section).

> +#ifdef __has_attribute
> +#if __has_attribute (retain)
> +# ifdef SHARED

Indentation is off there.

It's probably simpler to define a new macro, like
ELEMENT_SECTION_ATTRIBUTES, and use that unconditionally, perhaps like
this?

#ifndef __ASSEMBLER__
# if defined (__has_attribute) && __has_attribute (retain)
#  define ELEMENT_SECTION_ATTRIBUTES used, retain
# else
#  define ELEMENT_SECTION_ATTRIBUTES used
# endif
#endif

Have you checked that __has_attribute (retain) is only true on GCC if
the underlying linker has retain support and the attribute does not
produce a warning?

Thanks,
Florian


  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-15  7:28 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 40+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-15  1:10 Fangrui Song
2021-03-15  7:28 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2021-03-15  7:45   ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-03-15  8:13     ` Florian Weimer
2021-03-22  4:00       ` [PATCH v2] " Fangrui Song
2021-03-22  4:24         ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-22  4:40           ` Fangrui Song
2021-03-22 20:28             ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-23  4:14               ` Fangrui Song
2021-03-29 23:11                 ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-29 23:24                   ` [PATCH v3] " Fangrui Song
2021-03-30 18:17                     ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-30 19:17                       ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-03-30 19:30                         ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-31  4:34                           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-03-31 16:17                             ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-31 18:09                               ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-03-31 18:57                                 ` H.J. Lu
2021-03-31 19:39                                   ` [PATCH v4] " Fangrui Song
2021-03-31 23:38                                     ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-01  0:02                                       ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-01  1:00                                         ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-01  1:06                                           ` [PATCH v5] " Fangrui Song
2021-04-01 12:52                                             ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-02  3:23                                               ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-02 14:14                                                 ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-02 17:09                                                   ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-02 17:33                                                     ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-03 18:02                                                   ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-03 20:47                                                     ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-03 21:57                                                       ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-05  1:55                                                         ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-05 18:17                                                           ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-05 20:35                                                             ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-05 21:03                                                               ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-05 21:58                                                                 ` H.J. Lu
2021-04-06 21:46                                                                   ` Fangrui Song
2021-04-09 22:36                                                                     ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-04-16  3:51                                                                       ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-04-16 13:00                                                                     ` H.J. Lu

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