On 9/30/20 10:39 AM, Andre Przywara wrote: > When we build an arm64 target and enable POSITION_INDEPENDENT, we were > skipping our build-time dynamic relocation fixup routine (STATIC_RELA). > > This was probably done because we didn't need it in this case, as the > PIE fixup routine in start.S would take care of that at runtime. > > However when we now skip this routine (upon detecting that the fixup > offset is 0), this might lead to uninitialised pointers. > > Remove the exception, so that we always do the build-time relocation. > > NOTE: GNU binutils starting with v2.27.1 do this build-time relocation > automatically, to be in-line with other architecures. So on newer > toolchains our manual fixup is actually not needed. It doesn't hurt to > have it, though, so that we keep compatibility with the popular Linaro > toolchains, which lack this feature.
Reviewed-by: Stephen Warren <swar...@nvidia.com>
