[cfe-dev] Static linking a program

[Peter Smith via cfe-dev]

On 5 July 2018 at 17:18, Wink Saville <wink at saville.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 5, 2018, 2:11 AM Peter Smith <peter.smith at linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>> On 4 July 2018 at 23:20, Wink Saville via cfe-dev
>> <cfe-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:
>> > Executive summary: In _dl_get_origin lld is linking a call to mempcpy
>> > which
>> > I'd call "thunking code" as it returns in rax the address of the code
>> > that should be called instead of the address of the next available
>> > address of the
>> > destination buffer. And specifically, since rax is pointing at code,
>> > when a zero
>> > is stored to try to terminate the string we seg fault.
>> >
>> > I'd be glad to file a bug if you like.
>>
>> I think that would be the best idea. As Rui suggested earlier it would
>> be helpful to add -Wl,--reproduce=repro.tar so that all the libraries
>> are included. My suspicion here is that this is related to a newer
>> version of libc.a as I can't reproduce a crash on my Ubuntu 16.04
>> machine. Looking at an annotate of some of the glibc source it looks
>> like indirect functions (ifunc) have been used with __mempcpy have
>> been added relatively recently. The ifunc resolution mechanism is not
>> particularly well documented so it is possible that there is a case
>> that LLD isn't handling as expected.
>>
>> Unfortunately I can't tell much from the disassembly of the final
>> image about what the linker has got wrong. We really need to see the
>> input objects and how LLD and Gold differ in the resolution of symbols
>> and relocations to work that out.
>>
>> Sorry I can't be of much more help here.
>
>
> I'd added the --reproduce tar file to a previous post but it looks like it
> got stuck being approved by the list admin,
> I'll add it to the bug report.
>
> I'll file the bug at https://bugs.llvm.org, is there someone I should assign
> the bug to?
>
> -- Wink

At this stage it is fine to leave it unassigned. There are people that
get alerts when bugs are filed in particular components. When one of
us is actively looking at it we'll assign it to ourselves.

Peter