[Bug ld/24678] New: RISC-V pcrel relocs and abs global pointer variable

[wilson at gcc dot gnu.org]

https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24678

            Bug ID: 24678
           Summary: RISC-V pcrel relocs and abs global pointer variable
           Product: binutils
           Version: unspecified
            Status: NEW
          Severity: normal
          Priority: P2
         Component: ld
          Assignee: unassigned at sourceware dot org
          Reporter: wilson at gcc dot gnu.org
  Target Milestone: ---

Reported via IRC.

Compiling a trivial program as PIE, I get

hifiveu017:1201$ gcc -pie -fpic tmp.c
hifiveu017:1202$ readelf -s a.out | grep global_pointer
    65: 0000000000002800     0 NOTYPE  GLOBAL DEFAULT  ABS __global_pointer$
hifiveu017:1203$ 

This uses Scrt1.o which has
0000000000000038 <.Lload_gp>:
  38:   00000197                auipc   gp,0x0
                        38: R_RISCV_PCREL_HI20  __global_pointer$
  3c:   00018193                mv      gp,gp
                        3c: R_RISCV_PCREL_LO12_I        .L0 
  40:   8082                    ret
        ...

So we end up processing pc-relative relocs against a SHN_ABS symbol, which
isn't quite right.  This does work in practice because __global_pointer$ is not
actually a SHN_ABS symbol.  It just gets marked that way because of the way we
created it in a linker script.  But this inconsistency is breaking lld which
insists that pc-relative relocs can't be resolved against SHN_ABS symbols.

We should figure out how to get the __global_pointer$ symbol into an
appropriate section.  And we should consider warning for pc-relative relocs
against absolute symbols.

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