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I've noticed that lld keeps the data section more isolated than the gold or bfd linkers. For example, readelf -l applied to the "same" executable linked with those three linkers reveals the following under "Section to Segment mapping":<br>
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lld:</div>
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gold:</div>
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This separation seems to result in lld creating two LOAD RW segments whenever gold or bfd would create only one. For example, also from readelf -l output:<br>
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<span> LOAD 0x0000000000001a80 0x0000000000203a80 0x0000000000203a80<br>
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<div> 0x00000000000002a8 0x00000000000002a8 RW 0x1000<br>
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<div> LOAD 0x0000000000001d28 0x0000000000204d28 0x0000000000204d28<br>
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<span> 0x0000000000000060 0x000000000000015c RW 0x1000</span><br>
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Could someone explain why the lld behavior is different? Is there a way to make it match the gold/bfd behavior? I've looked through the options list and read some of the lld code, but so far have not been able to find a solution.<br>
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<br></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>I think this is likely to be <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D58892">https://reviews.llvm.org/D58892</a> "Split RW PT_LOAD on the PT_GNU_RELRO boundary", which was made as part of a suggestion in a comment for a related change <a href="https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828">https://reviews.llvm.org/D56828</a> . The root cause of the justification is that it enables better use of .<a href="http://bss.rel.ro">bss.rel.ro</a> sections. Unfortunately other than turning off RELRO with -znorelo I'm not aware of an easier way to change this behaviour. It may be possible to write a linker script with a PHDRS command but I've not tried it. If I were to try I'd start by getting the linker script from ld.bfd --verbose, and then add a PHDRS command to it.</div><div><br></div><div>If there is a good case for needing the ld.bfd behaviour I suggest raising a PR, I'm thinking that this could be configurable via a command line option.</div><div><br></div><div>Hope this helps</div><div><br></div><div>Peter</div><div><br></div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div dir="ltr"><div style="font-family:Calibri,Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12pt;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">
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