Re: [PATCH 3/5] LoongArch: Support relocation against _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_

[Jinyang He]

On 07/28/2022 06:57 PM, Xi Ruoyao wrote:

> On Thu, 2022-07-28 at 17:14 +0800, Jinyang He wrote:
> > Not sure but maybe re-align is needed here.
> > Since '{BYTE(0)}' actually use 1byte. _GLOABL_OFFSET_TABLE_ may have
> > difference with really GOT table entry. Have no machine and without
> > test... :-(
> BYTE(0) is only for preventing the linker from removing the section.
> All we want from the linker is a slot for .got in the section table, and
> the actual property (including size) will be filled at runtime by
> module_frob_arch_sections.  The first GOT entry won't be "appended"
> after one byte, it is wrote into the start of .got (at runtime).
Thank you for the detail answer which solves a doubt
that bothered me for a long time. I used to define the
'sym' outside of '.sec'. It always failed without align.