[Bug ld/22764] [2.30 Regression] ld fails to link 4.13 and 4.15 kernels on aarch64-linux-gnu

[ard.biesheuvel at linaro dot org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=22764

--- Comment #4 from Ard Biesheuvel <ard.biesheuvel at linaro dot org> ---
(In reply to H.J. Lu from comment #3)
> (In reply to Ard Biesheuvel from comment #2)
> > 
> > One could argue that absolute relocations against *absolute* ELF symbols
> > should always be resolved at static link time, but I am aware that, for
> > historical reasons, symbols like __GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE__ are emitted as
> > absolute, making this difficult to realise in practice.
> 
> Not true on x86:
> 
>   3987: 00000000003dd000     0 OBJECT  LOCAL  DEFAULT   33
> _GLOBAL_OFFSET_TABLE_

Oh right.

Well, in any case, please refer to this ticket

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20402

and the link in the comments for more discussion on this topic.

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