[Bug ld/13600] protected visibility creates bogus relocation

[amodra at gmail dot com]

http://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=13600

--- Comment #12 from Alan Modra <amodra at gmail dot com> 2012-01-19 12:49:02 
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> Well, if I put that constant into a shared library _and_ I put one into
> the executable I'm still lost, no?

No, because shared libraries must be -fpic/PIC and as you note

> Btw, with -fPIC or -fPIE GCC puts the constants in .data.rel.ro
> instead.

and .data.rel.ro can have relocs.

> Which means a lost optimization (we need to go through the GOT here).

Choose your poison.  :)

> Still, if GCC tells ld to resolve the address of a protected visibility
> foo in a shared lib without a relocation why can't it simply do so
> as surely it is techincally possible?

It is possible, but will break function pointer comparisons if a pointer to foo
is passed between the shared lib and executable in either direction, since the
address of foo in the shared lib and the address of the same foo in the
executable will be different.

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