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Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry

From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl dot tools at gmail dot com>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph at codesourcery dot com>
Cc: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hans-peter dot nilsson at axis dot com>, Binutils <binutils at sourceware dot org>
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2017 10:28:10 -0700
Subject: Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
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References: <CAMe9rOry_74NsYu4NesQDoEaQY1TNF0RVCM95JxQughqfvAU7Q@mail.gmail.com> <201710212337.v9LNbfNs016809@ignucius.se.axis.com> <CAMe9rOrR6reLWsKB_5RhuyHtxnShvZJVpTno3EdV0qRXQ9tSYQ@mail.gmail.com> <alpine.DEB.2.20.1710231710190.2474@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Mon, Oct 23, 2017 at 10:13 AM, Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Oct 2017, H.J. Lu wrote:
>
>> Some linker tests need to allocate more than 4GB memory,
>> which only work if linker is an ELF64 linker.
>
> I would certainly hope such tests work, for example, with a linker built
> for 64-bit Windows host, which would be a PE .exe file, not an ELF file at
> all.
>

Yes, a patch to detect 64-bit linker binary on Windows is needed.


-- 
H.J.

References:
- Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
  - From: Hans-Peter Nilsson
- Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
  - From: H.J. Lu
- Re: [PATCH] PR ld/17618: Check PC-relative offset overflow in PLT entry
  - From: Joseph Myers

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