Re: gold plugin support

[K Jski <bielsk1 at vt dot edu>]

Thanks for the quick response! I shall take a look the the API and see
if it helps

~C Jelesnianski

On Fri, Nov 21, 2014 at 2:18 PM, Cary Coutant <ccoutant@google.com> wrote:
> The linker plugin API is described here:
>
>    https://gcc.gnu.org/wiki/whopr/driver
>
> The header file in include/plugin-api.h also goes into some detail.
>
> It's implemented in both gold and the BFD ld.
>
> The API was designed for LTO (link-time optimization), so I'm not sure
> that it provides the hooks you'd need to do what you described.
>
> -cary
>
>
> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 11:21 AM, K Jski <bielsk1@vt.edu> wrote:
>> Dear BinUtils,
>>
>> I am working on a custom function-address-aligner in order to produce
>> an aarch64 binary. I have already tried achieving this with the linaro
>> (4.9-2014.10 version to be exact) aarch64-toolchain utilizing their
>> aarch64-linux-gnu-ld with the --defsym flag without success. (it does
>> align but this causes my micro-test to segfault)
>>
>> Another approach I had thought of was to write a gold plugin and use
>> gold to achieve though I'm having trouble finding any documentation on
>> this (like a tutorial for even a super simple plugin )
>> the first thing that comes up when I google is LLVM's gold plugin
>> which is not what I want I assume. I have dug though gold src code and
>> have found a plugin object but its leaving me with not much to work
>> with.
>>
>> Thank you,
>>
>> C Jelesnianski