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__BYTE_ORDER is now available wherever alltypes.h is included. since
reloc.h is only used from src/internal/dynlink.h, it can be assumed
that __BYTE_ORDER is exposed. reloc.h is not permitted to be included
in other contexts, and generally, like most arch headers, lacks
inclusion guards that would allow such usage. the mips64 version
mistakenly included such guards; they are removed for consistency.
R_PPC_UADDR32 (R_PPC64_UADDR64) has the same meaning as R_PPC_ADDR32
(R_PPC64_ADDR64), except that its address need not be aligned. For
powerpc64, BFD ld(1) will automatically convert between ADDR<->UADDR
relocations when the address is/isn't at its native alignment. This
will happen if, for example, there is a pointer in a packed struct.
gold and lld do not currently generate R_PPC64_UADDR64, but pass
through misaligned R_PPC64_ADDR64 relocations from object files,
possibly relaxing them to misaligned R_PPC64_RELATIVE. In both cases
(relaxed or not) this violates the PSABI, which defines the relevant
field type as "a 64-bit field occupying 8 bytes, the alignment of
which is 8 bytes unless otherwise specified."
All three linkers violate the PSABI on 32-bit powerpc, where the only
difference is that the field is 32 bits wide, aligned to 4 bytes.
Currently musl fails to load executables linked by BFD ld containing
R_PPC64_UADDR64, with the error "unsupported relocation type 43".
This change provides compatibility with BFD ld on powerpc64, and any
static linker on either architecture that starts following the PSABI
more closely.
the 32-bit pc-relative address for stage 2 of dynamic linker entry was
wrongly loaded with a zero-extending load instead of sign-extending
load, resulting in an invalid jump if the offset happened to be
negative, which depends on the linker's ordering of text sections.
Rich Felker
Samuel Holland
Bobby Bingham