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Re: [Patch mach-o/gas] fix thinko in indirect symbol handling.
- From: Tristan Gingold <gingold at adacore dot com>
- To: Iain Sandoe <developer at sandoe-acoustics dot co dot uk>
- Cc: binutils Development <binutils at sourceware dot org>
- Date: Fri, 10 Feb 2012 15:16:20 +0100
- Subject: Re: [Patch mach-o/gas] fix thinko in indirect symbol handling.
- References: <DC61F719-D581-4427-9DB2-2E37F9F30CEB@sandoe-acoustics.co.uk>
On Feb 10, 2012, at 1:37 PM, Iain Sandoe wrote:
> indirect symbols are stored away as we encounter them, and then processed/validated fairly late in the output.
>
> this causes a problem if one uses a "L" local symbol as an indirect (something which compiler-output doesn't seem to, I only found this with one of my artificial test-cases).
>
> the problem is that (the output-time) processing of the symbol as an indirect causes it to be 'promoted' to a real one (with a bfd counterpart). This ICEs GAS because the symtab is frozen by then.
>
> Anyway, the simplest solution is to force 'promotion' of "L"ocal symbols at the point they are known to be indirect refs.
>
> OK?
Yes. For sure this is a particular case, but no reasons not to handle it when it is simple.
Thanks,
Tristan.
> Iain
>
> gas:
>
> * config/obj-macho.c (obj_mach_o_indirect_symbol): Force promotion of any local
> symbol used as an indirect.
>
> iff --git a/gas/config/obj-macho.c b/gas/config/obj-macho.c
> index f4706ab..925fe06 100644
> --- a/gas/config/obj-macho.c
> +++ b/gas/config/obj-macho.c
> @@ -1182,6 +1182,11 @@ obj_mach_o_indirect_symbol (int arg ATTRIBUTE_UNUSED)
> }
> *input_line_pointer = c;
>
> + /* The indirect symbols are validated after the symbol table is
> + frozen, we must make sure that if a local symbol is used as an
> + indirect, it is promoted to a 'real' one. Fetching the bfd sym
> + achieves this. */
> + symbol_get_bfdsym (sym);
> isym = (obj_mach_o_indirect_sym *)
> xmalloc (sizeof (obj_mach_o_indirect_sym));
>
>