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Date: Sat, 25 May 2019 22:49:21 +0200
From: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Subject: Re: musl can't handle gold's STB_LOCAL TLS symbols
* Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> [2019-05-25 12:51:33 -0400]:
> On Sat, May 25, 2019 at 11:18:16AM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> >
> > the sysv elf spec allows leaving STB_LOCAL symbols
> > in the dynamic symbol table if they were hidden [1].
> > it does not say if symbolic dynamic relocs may refer
> > to them, though.
>
> I don't think there's any reasonable way a reference to the symbol
> from a relocation can distinguish between one that needs to use the
> local definition and one that needs to follow normal global symbol
> resolution, is there? Or can it just skip the lookup entirely and use
> the reference as the definition in this case?? If that's possible it
> might be trivial and non-controversial to support.
i think using the ref as the def is the only sensible
interpretation for STB_LOCAL.
glibc seems to do that but there are some warts: on ppc32
sym->st_value is already added to reloc->r_addend for
STB_LOCAL syms, but not for tls syms (assuming glibc is right).
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