History log of /seL4-refos-master/libs/libmuslc/crt/rcrt1.c
Revision Date Author Comments
# 2d0290de 17-Feb-2016 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

fix regression in SH/FDPIC dynamic linker

the dynamic linker was found to hang when used as the PT_INTERP, but
not when invoked as a command. the mechanism of this failure was not
determined, but the cause is clear:

commit 5552ce52000855906a5cb4f08f2e456573cca51f removed the SHARED
macro, but arch/sh/crt_arch.h is still using it to choose the right
form of the crt/ldso entry point code. moving the forced definition
from rcrt1.c to dlstart.c restores the old behavior. eventually the
logic should be changed to fully remove the SHARED macro or at least
rename it to something more reasonable.


# 5552ce52 25-Jan-2016 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

move dynamic linker to its own top-level directory, ldso

this eliminates the last need for the SHARED macro to control how
files in the src tree are compiled. the same code is used for both
libc.a and libc.so, with additional code for the dynamic linker (from
the new ldso tree) being added to libc.so but not libc.a. separate .o
and .lo object files still exist for the src tree, but the only
difference is that the .lo files are built as PIC.

in the future, if/when we add dlopen support for static-linked
programs, much of the code in dynlink.c may be moved back into the src
tree, but properly factored into separate source files. in that case,
the code in the ldso tree will be reduced to just the dynamic linker
entry point, self-relocation, and loading of libraries needed by the
main application.


# bc9b6ea0 15-Oct-2015 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

fix visibility mismatch in dynamic linker stage 2 function definition

since commits 2907afb8dbd4c1d34825c3c9bd2b41564baca210 and
6fc30c2493fcfedec89e45088bea87766a1e3286, __dls2 is no longer called
via symbol lookup, but instead uses relative addressing that needs to
be resolved at link time. on some linker versions, and/or if
-Bsymbolic-functions is not used, the linker may leave behind a
dynamic relocation, which is not suitable for bootstrapping the
dynamic linker, if the reference to __dls2 is marked hidden but the
definition is not actually hidden. correcting the definition to use
hidden visibility fixes the problem.

the static-PIE entry point rcrt1 was likewise affected and is also
fixed by this patch.


# dc031ee0 26-May-2015 Rich Felker <dalias@aerifal.cx>

add rcrt1 start file for fully static-linked PIE

static-linked PIE files need startup code to relocate themselves, much
like the dynamic linker does. rcrt1.c reuses the code in dlstart.c,
stage 1 of the dynamic linker, which in turn reuses crt_arch.h, to
achieve static PIE with no new code. only relative relocations are
supported.

existing toolchains that don't yet support static PIE directly can be
repurposed by passing "-shared -Wl,-Bstatic -Wl,-Bsymbolic" instead of
"-static -pie" and substituting rcrt1.o in place of crt1.o.

all libraries being linked must be built as PIC/PIE; TEXTRELs are not
supported at this time.