On Thu, Nov 16, 2017 at 04:34:03PM +0000, Ard Biesheuvel wrote: > You still have not explained to us how GOLD avoids the erratum.
Sorry, I didn't realize you were asking that. If gold spots erratum sequences, looks like it creates stubs to break them up: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gold/aarch64.cc#l8396 It also attempts to optimize the code by replacing adrps in these sequences with adr where possible, but otherwise doesn't appear to touch them: https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=blob;f=gold/aarch64.cc#l2053 Sami