[PATCH] D59780: Support Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology
Rui Ueyama via Phabricator via llvm-commits
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Sun Mar 31 20:27:16 PDT 2019
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Comment at: lld/ELF/InputFiles.cpp:594
+// If a source file is compiled with x86 hardware-assisted call flow control
+// enabled, the generated object file contains feature flags indicating that
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MaskRay wrote:
> ruiu wrote:
> > MaskRay wrote:
> > > call flow control -> Control-Flow Enforcement ?
> > This is a general name and not specific to the Intel's implementation.
> My concern here is that llvm-objdump/GNU objdump and other tools/profilers would have to recognize two section names `.plt.sec` and `.splt`. Many tools use the section name to do special things, e.g.
> @hjl.tools If the ABI can be changed to not deliberately differ from the implementation (or the other way round), it'd be great.
>
> binutils/objdump.c:739
>
> ```
> static bfd_boolean
> is_significant_symbol_name (const char * name)
> {
> return strncmp (name, ".plt", 4) == 0 || strcmp (name, ".got") == 0;
> }
> ```
I'm not sure if I follow. Currently, in my patch, I use ".splt" and ".plt" as PLT section names, which I think as defined by the ABI. Are you saying that ".plt.sec" might be a correct name?
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