[PATCH] D26133: [ELF] Allow relative relocations to absolute symbols in PIC

[Peter Collingbourne via llvm-commits]

On Thu, Feb 23, 2017 at 2:05 PM, Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk>
wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 13, 2016 at 9:29 AM, Rafael Avila de Espindola <
> rafael.espindola at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Peter Collingbourne <peter at pcc.me.uk> writes:
>> > Should this not work for referring to the image base?
>> >
>> > ADDR(.interp) - ABSOLUTE(ADDR(.interp))
>> >
>> > The advantage is that this avoids creating new syntax so is already
>> > somewhat compatible with existing linkers. The downside is that you
>> need to
>> > specify a section, but in practice you can usually choose one that is
>> known
>> > to exist.
>> >
>> > I don't think we currently create a section relative symbol from that,
>> but
>> > that's just a bug we can fix.
>>
>> Yes, that looks better than having a new magic variable.
>>
>
> Today I discovered that both bfd and gold predefine a symbol named
> __executable_start which resolves to the image base. If we do the same we
> can simply allow users to use that symbol to refer to the image base
> (either directly or in a linker script).
>

My mistake, this is in fact the start of the executable segment, which does
not correspond to the image base in non-PIC executables.

Thanks,
-- 
-- 
Peter
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