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From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: "Fāng-ruì Sòng" <maskray@google.com>
Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] Make glibc build with LLD
Date: Fri, 8 Jan 2021 09:09:49 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOqwucJgAAOA=5B0SeEnnDaX3AVUr5SJopcz7_EWH4R-wA@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAFP8O3LeMpKpEPow52pEvBkU4R=sH5QG8sAu_qSYixES-rdTng@mail.gmail.com>

On Thu, Jan 7, 2021 at 9:05 PM Fāng-ruì Sòng via Libc-alpha
<libc-alpha@sourceware.org> wrote:
>
> On Mon, Dec 28, 2020 at 11:48 AM Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com> wrote:
> >
> > I sent the first two in April. Resending in a patch series to be
> > clearer.
> >
> >   install: Replace scripts/output-format.sed with objdump -f
> >
> > replaced https://sourceware.org/pipermail/libc-alpha/2020-April/112733.html
> > by leveraging objdump -f.
> >
> > With this patch series (available in https://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc.git;a=shortlog;h=refs/heads/maskray/lld),
> > `make` with ld pointing to ld.lld (LLVM linker) works.
> >
> > Fangrui Song (3):
> >   configure: Allow LD to be a linker other than GNU ld and gold
> >   elf: Replace a --defsym trick with an object file to be compatible
> >     with lld
> >   install: Replace scripts/output-format.sed with objdump -f
> >
> >  Makerules                                     | 13 ++-----
> >  .../strcoll-inputs/filelist#en_US.UTF-8       |  1 -
> >  config.make.in                                |  1 -
> >  configure                                     | 32 +++++------------
> >  configure.ac                                  | 24 +++++--------
> >  elf/Makefile                                  | 11 +++---
> >  scripts/output-format.sed                     | 35 -------------------
> >  7 files changed, 23 insertions(+), 94 deletions(-)
> >  delete mode 100644 scripts/output-format.sed
> >
> > --
> > 2.29.2.729.g45daf8777d-goog
> >
>
> Hope "elf:" and "install:" can be reviewed (they are nice
> simplification on their own), even if you don't want to take
> "configure:" for now.
>
> For __rela_iplt_start, I gave a fair assessment on
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=48674#c4 . I feel bad that an
> improvable binutils issue caused the block of a static-pie relocation
> improvement

No.  There is no need to work around the lld bug which can be fixed.

> "Make _dl_relocate_static_pie return an int indicating whether it
> applied relocs." The other few failures (e.g. not supporting ld.lld
> --audit / tls common) are not really usability affecting issues.

"make check" should be clean.  Otherwise, we have no way to
know if glibc is built properly on x86.

-- 
H.J.

  reply	other threads:[~2021-01-08 17:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-12-28 19:48 Fangrui Song
2020-12-28 19:48 ` [PATCH 1/3] configure: Allow LD to be a linker other than GNU ld and gold Fangrui Song
2020-12-28 20:46   ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-28 21:15     ` [PATCH 1/3] configure: Allow LD to be LLD 9.0.0 or above " Fangrui Song
2020-12-28 19:48 ` [PATCH 2/3] elf: Replace a --defsym trick with an object file to be compatible with lld Fangrui Song
2021-01-11 20:06   ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-18 22:08     ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-19  0:03   ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-19  8:50     ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-19 12:30       ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-20 18:51         ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-28  1:03           ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-29 14:38             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-01-29 15:29               ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-29 18:04                 ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-01-29 19:28                   ` [PATCH v2] elf: Replace a --defsym trick with an object file to be compatible with LLD Fangrui Song
2021-02-01 13:19                     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-02-01 13:45                       ` H.J. Lu
2021-02-01 13:43                     ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-28 19:48 ` [PATCH 3/3] install: Replace scripts/output-format.sed with objdump -f [BZ #26559] Fangrui Song
2021-01-08 19:38   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-01-12 11:20     ` Florian Weimer
2021-01-12 12:00       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2021-01-12 17:46         ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-12 11:32   ` Andreas Schwab
2021-01-12 11:58     ` Florian Weimer
2020-12-28 21:11 ` [PATCH 0/3] Make glibc build with LLD H.J. Lu
2020-12-28 21:45   ` Fangrui Song
2020-12-28 21:49     ` H.J. Lu
2020-12-28 22:54       ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-05 23:03         ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-05 23:33           ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-05 23:41             ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-05 23:51               ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-06  0:50                 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-06  1:43                   ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-06  2:00                     ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-06  2:14                       ` H.J. Lu
2021-01-05 22:57       ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-08  5:04 ` Fāng-ruì Sòng
2021-01-08 17:09   ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2021-01-08 18:04     ` Fāng-ruì Sòng

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