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Re: [parisc-linux] Re: [RFC] Emit OPD reloc for all global symbols and then some.
On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 01:40:56PM -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 20, 2005 at 04:26:25PM -0400, John David Anglin wrote:
> > > > Under hppa-linux:
> > > > ------------------
> > > > We want to generate a PLABEL32 (OPD reloc) against all global symbols,
> > > > and then some. For example it should be possible for an application to
> > > > call dlsym asking for the address of main, and when compared to main it
> > > > should match.
> > > >
> > >
> > > Does it work on Linux/ia32? If not, why should it work on Linux/hppa?
> >
> > The linux manpage for dlsym indicates that symbols in the main
> > program can be looked up with dlsym:
> >
> > If filename is a NULL pointer, then the returned handle is
> > for the main program. When given to dlsym(), this handle
> > causes a search for a symbol in the main program, followed
> > by all shared libraries loaded at program startup, and
> > then all shared libraries loaded by dlopen() with the flag
> > RTLD_GLOBAL.
> >
> > So, if it doesn't work, that would seem to be a bug in Linux/ia32.
>
> It works if the global symbol is exported. But not all global symbols
> in main are exported by default. You can use --export-dynamic to export
> all global symbols.
Regardless of wether or not I export all global symbols in main, I must
still emit OPD relocs in the executable for all dynamic symbols. In the
past the OPD reloc was "fudged" and pointed at the PLT, and this is not
a satisfactory situation. I want ld.so.1 to generate the OPD so we no
longer need gcc to emit the __cffc helper function for comparisons.
I owe you a big thank you for writing the generic function
descriptor code in glibc, since hppa is also using that code :)
c.