[llvm-dev] [PPC] Linker fails on -fstack-protector

[Kyle Butt via llvm-dev]

On Mon, Jan 25, 2016 at 11:57 AM, Tim Shen via llvm-dev <
llvm-dev at lists.llvm.org> wrote:

> When -fstack-protector is turned on, linker fails to find the symbol "__stack_chk_guard"
> because at least for powerpc64le, glibc doesn't provide this symbol.
> Instead, they put the stack guard into TCB.
>
> x86 fixed this issue by injecting a special address space (which is later
> translated to TCB register access) and hard code the offset of stack_guard,
> but I don't see a easy way to handle address spaces in ppc.
>
> A cleaner solution could be adding an IR intrinsic llvm.get_tcb_address()
> and hard code the offset of stack_guard member, since they aren't supposed
> to change.
>
>
Can you try to implement the intrinsic for x86 as a proof of concept?


> Details are in the bug: https://llvm.org/bugs/show_bug.cgi?id=26226
>
> Any ideas?
>
> Thanks!
>
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