I reckon it's quite OK to write &p->field in C when p might be NULL,
and lots of old C programmers probably agree with me. However, ubsan
disagrees and so do some people I respect. I suspect C++ influence is
to blame for the ubsan behaviour. See
https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=92634. So far no one has
educated me as to why I'm wrong to claim that there isn't anything in
the C standard to say that p->field is always (*p).field. Note 79
doesn't quite do that because it doesn't cover null pointers. If
there was such an equivalence then you could claim &p->field has a
null pointer reference when p is NULL, even though no C compiler would
ever dereference p.
Anyway, to silence ubsan I'm going to apply the following though I
prefer to avoid casts when possible. And I'm using (void *)
deliberately because this is C, not C++!
* ldlang.c (lang_output_section_find_by_flags): Don't use &p->field
when p might be NULL.
* ldelf.c (output_rel_find, ldelf_place_orphan): Likewise.
(insert_os_after, lang_insert_orphan, lookup_name): Likewise.
(strip_excluded_output_sections, lang_clear_os_map): Likewise.
(lang_check, lang_for_each_input_file): Likewise.
(lang_reset_memory_regions, find_replacements_insert_point): Likewise.
(find_rescan_insertion, lang_propagate_lma_regions): Likewise.
(lang_record_phdrs): Likewise.
* emultempl/alphaelf.em (alpha_after_open): Likewise.
* emultempl/mmo.em (mmo_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pe.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/pep.em (gld_${EMULATION_NAME}_place_orphan): Likewise.
* emultempl/ppc32elf.em (ppc_after_check_relocs): Likewise.
* emultempl/spuelf.em (spu_before_allocation): Likewise.
(embedded_spu_file): Likewise.
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README for LD
This is the GNU linker. It is distributed with other "binary
utilities" which should be in ../binutils. See ../binutils/README for
more general notes, including where to send bug reports.
There are many features of the linker:
* The linker uses a Binary File Descriptor library (../bfd)
that it uses to read and write object files. This helps
insulate the linker itself from the format of object files.
* The linker supports a number of different object file
formats. It can even handle multiple formats at once:
Read two input formats and write a third.
* The linker can be configured for cross-linking.
* The linker supports a control language.
* There is a user manual (ld.texi), as well as the
beginnings of an internals manual (ldint.texi).
Installation
============
See ../binutils/README.
If you want to make a cross-linker, you may want to specify
a different search path of -lfoo libraries than the default.
You can do this by setting the LIB_PATH variable in ./Makefile
or using the --with-lib-path configure switch.
To build just the linker, make the target all-ld from the top level
directory (one directory above this one).
Porting to a new target
=======================
See the ldint.texi manual.
Reporting bugs etc
===========================
See ../binutils/README.
Known problems
==============
The Solaris linker normally exports all dynamic symbols from an
executable. The GNU linker does not do this by default. This is
because the GNU linker tries to present the same interface for all
similar targets (in this case, all native ELF targets). This does not
matter for normal programs, but it can make a difference for programs
which try to dlopen an executable, such as PERL or Tcl. You can make
the GNU linker export all dynamic symbols with the -E or
--export-dynamic command line option.
HP/UX 9.01 has a shell bug that causes the linker scripts to be
generated incorrectly. The symptom of this appears to be "fatal error
- scanner input buffer overflow" error messages. There are various
workarounds to this:
* Build and install bash, and build with "make SHELL=bash".
* Update to a version of HP/UX with a working shell (e.g., 9.05).
* Replace "(. ${srcdir}/scripttempl/${SCRIPT_NAME}.sc)" in
genscripts.sh with "sh ${srcdir}..." (no parens) and make sure the
emulparams script used exports any shell variables it sets.
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