[llvm-bugs] [Bug 35666] New: Function aliases in .so not preserved when one is "copied" to executable

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https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=35666

            Bug ID: 35666
           Summary: Function aliases in .so not preserved when one is
                    "copied" to executable
           Product: lld
           Version: unspecified
          Hardware: PC
                OS: Linux
            Status: NEW
          Severity: enhancement
          Priority: P
         Component: ELF
          Assignee: unassignedbugs at nondot.org
          Reporter: rafael.espindola at gmail.com
                CC: llvm-bugs at lists.llvm.org

This is an extremely low priority bug. Mostly just something I wanted to
document somewhere.

When a shared library has two aliased global symbols (foo=bar) and they are
objects, a copy relocation from an executable will bring both symbols to the
symbol table of the executable so that the alias is preserved.

If the symbols are functions that is not done. It is also not implemented by
bfd or gold.

The only way I can think of fixing this without bloating Symbol is to create a
single entry plt synthetic section and assign that to CopyRelSec, similar to
how we handle copy relocations.

This would have the advantage of removing NeedsPltAddr, but I think it would be
more complicated overall.

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