+Ryan, +Kugan,

On 17 December 2013 08:45, Michael Hudson-Doyle
<michael.hud...@linaro.org> wrote:
> Will Newton <will.new...@linaro.org> writes:
>
>> On 17 December 2013 07:53, Michael Hudson-Doyle
>> <michael.hud...@linaro.org> wrote:
>>> Ah... found it!  This is the code that determines the offset to patch
>>> into the code (elfnn-aarch64.c line 3845):
>>>
>>>       value = (symbol_got_offset (input_bfd, h, r_symndx)
>>>                + globals->root.sgot->output_section->vma
>>>                + globals->root.sgot->output_section->output_offset);
>>>
>>> and this is the code that determines the offset as written into the
>>> relocation (elfnn-aarch64.c line 4248):
>>>
>>>               off = symbol_got_offset (input_bfd, h, r_symndx);
>>>               ...
>>>                   rela.r_offset = globals->root.sgot->output_section->vma +
>>>                     globals->root.sgot->output_offset + off;
>>>
>>> Can you see the difference?  The former is
>>> "root.sgot->output_section->output_offset", the latter is
>>> "root.sgot->output_offset".
>>
>> Yes, that does look a bit odd.
>
> Yes.  And one is the difference between the reloc and the code value and
> the other is zero...
>
>>> This suggests the rather obvious attached patch.  I haven't tested this
>>> exact patch, but its an obvious translation from a patch to
>>> 692e2b8bcdd8325ebfbe1daace87100d53d15ad6^ which does work.  I also
>>> haven't tested the second hunk at all, but it seems plausible...
>>
>> Thanks for you analysis, the fix does look plausible indeed. ;-)
>>
>> Have you verified it fixes the problem you were seeing?
>
> To be super correct, I have not verified that the patch I sent you, when
> applied to binutils tip, fixes the problem.  But a patch that's
> basically the same when applied to a slightly random commit from June
> results in working binaries (and the unpatched version does not).
>
>> I'm about to disappear to sunnier climes
>
> One advantage of the southern hemisphere: my climes are already sunny...
>
>> for three weeks but I'll definitely look at it when I get back. I've
>> added Marcus to CC in case he isn't reading this list.
>
> Cool.  Would it be useful to report the bug in
> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/ as well?

Yes please.

Ryan or Kugan can you look at fixing this please?

Thanks,

Matt

-- 
Matthew Gretton-Dann
Linaro Toolchain Working Group
matthew.gretton-d...@linaro.org

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