Re: Segmentation fault on all golang executables

[Andy Lutomirski]

On Thu, Jun 12, 2014 at 11:41 AM, H. Peter Anvin <hpa@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On 06/12/2014 11:38 AM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>>>
>>> 2. Write a dummy section table that contains a single empty section of
>>> type SHT_DYNSYM.  Hopefully the Go runtime will then get far enough to
>>> fail cleanly.  And they can go and write a real ELF parser or copy my
>>> reference parser correctly.  (hpa, can you apply my patches to make
>>> the reference parser 32-bit clean?)
>>
>
> Could you resend it please?

Yes.  I'll send the whole series.

>
>> Sigh.
>>
>> See attached.  It seems to work for me.  Can you test it?  It'll hurt
>> performance for Go programs, but I don't feel too bad about that.
>>
>
> If Google fixes Go, will that address the performance problem?

Yes.

Note that my hack will build a buggy vdso on big-endian hosts.  Is
there a way to convert host -> BE yet?

--Andy
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