From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
To: Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
Cc: x86-64-abi <x86-64-abi@googlegroups.com>,
Binutils <binutils@sourceware.org>,
GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Subject: Re: PT_NOTE alignment, NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0, glibc and gold
Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2018 07:43:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMe9rOrSDycWt8o1EFwWWF8jUibEQZ5EMUNRMDFzMXGd2i1uuw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8375685a-888d-7610-3b93-0d50bca32698@redhat.com>
On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 7:01 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/16/2018 03:39 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>
>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:31 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>>>
>>> On 08/16/2018 03:19 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Thu, Aug 16, 2018 at 6:00 AM, Florian Weimer <fweimer@redhat.com>
>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> On 08/07/2018 10:41 PM, H.J. Lu wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>>
>>>>>> The .note.gnu.property section with NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0 has been
>>>>>> added to Linux Extensions to gABI:
>>>>>>
>>>>>> https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi
>>>>>>
>>>>>> GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_USED and GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_NEEDED are
>>>>>> processor-specific program property types for i386 and x86-64.
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> The specification is incomplete as far as alignment matters are
>>>>> concerned.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/linux-abi-draft.pdf
>>>>
>>>> has
>>>>
>>>> 2.1.7 Alignment of Note Sections
>>>>
>>>> All entries in a PT_NOTE segment have the same alignment which equals to
>>>> the
>>>> p_align field in program header.
>>>> According to gABI, each note entry should be aligned to 4 bytes in
>>>> 32-bit
>>>> objects or 8 bytes in 64-bit objects. But .note.ABI-tag section (see
>>>> Section 2.1.6) and .note.gnu.build-id section (see Section 2.1.4) are
>>>> aligned
>>>> to 4 bytes in both 32-bit and 64-bit objects. Note parser should use
>>>> p_align for
>>>> note alignment, instead of assuming alignment based on ELF file class.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> This is still ambiguous, particularly based on your comments below.
>>
>>
>> https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi/wiki/linux-abi-draft.pdf
>>
>> conforms to gABI unless stated otherwise.
>
>
> I still think there is ambiguity.
Can you check out
https://github.com/hjl-tools/linux-abi
and send me a patch to make note alignment less ambiguous?
--
H.J.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-08-16 14:43 UTC|newest]
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[not found] <CAMe9rOrrayKnc_cPm4SmnDnUGLbBUmOYMBTMOM8KLAHVmb=rUQ@mail.gmail.com>
2018-08-16 13:00 ` PT_NOTE alignment, NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0, glibc and gold (was: Re: [PATCH] Document GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_[USED|NEEDED]) Florian Weimer
2018-08-16 13:19 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-16 13:29 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-16 13:31 ` PT_NOTE alignment, NT_GNU_PROPERTY_TYPE_0, glibc and gold Florian Weimer
2018-08-16 13:39 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-16 14:01 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-16 14:43 ` H.J. Lu [this message]
2018-08-16 14:21 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-16 17:46 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-16 19:16 ` Mark Wielaard
2018-08-16 19:36 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-17 6:04 ` Mark Wielaard
2018-08-17 6:20 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-17 6:41 ` Mark Wielaard
2018-08-17 15:10 ` H.J. Lu
2018-08-17 21:05 ` Mark Wielaard
2018-08-21 23:02 ` Cary Coutant
2018-08-22 9:39 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-22 10:08 ` Mark Wielaard
2018-08-22 23:36 ` Cary Coutant
2018-08-24 18:39 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-23 14:41 ` Michael Matz
2018-08-23 14:43 ` Florian Weimer
2018-08-17 15:13 ` H.J. Lu
2018-09-19 19:22 ` Florian Weimer
2018-09-21 12:55 ` Michael Matz
2018-09-21 13:04 ` Florian Weimer
2018-09-26 17:39 ` Cary Coutant
2018-09-26 18:36 ` H.J. Lu
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