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It is usually possible to tell absolute and ordinary symbols apart in BFD throughout the link, by checking whether the section that owns the symbol is absolute or not. That however does not work for ordinary symbols defined in a linker script outside an output section statement. Initially such symbols are entered into to the link hash as absolute symbols, owned by the absolute section. A flag is set in the internal linker expression defining such symbols to tell the linker to convert them to section-relative ones in the final phase of the link. That flag is however not accessible to BFD linker code, including BFD target code in particular. Add a flag to the link hash then to copy the information held in the linker expression. Define a macro, `bfd_is_abs_symbol', for BFD code to use where determining whether a symbol is absolute or ordinary is required before the final link phase. This macro will correctly identify the special `__ehdr_start' symbol as ordinary throughout link, for example, even though early on it will be assigned to the absolute section. Of course this does not let BFD code identify what the symbol's ultimate section will be before the final link phase has converted this symbol (in `update_definedness'). include/ * bfdlink.h (bfd_link_hash_entry): Add `rel_from_abs' member. bfd/ * linker.c (bfd_is_abs_symbol): New macro. * bfd-in2.h: Regenerate. ld/ * ldexp.c (exp_fold_tree_1) <etree_assign, etree_provide> <etree_provided>: Copy expression's `rel_from_abs' flag to the link hash. |
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texi), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texi).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texi manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
Copyright (C) 2012-2018 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
Copying and distribution of this file, with or without modification,
are permitted in any medium without royalty provided the copyright
notice and this notice are preserved.