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Authored by andrew on May 20 2024, 11:59 AM.
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Summary

Use the Global Offset Table to find the location of main in crt1. With
lld the old code would point to main@plt, however ld.bfd fails to link
when main is in a shared library.

Fix this by using the GOT address to find main as it works with both
lld and bfd.

Sponsored by: Arm Ltd

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It surprises me that GNU ld doesn't want to create canonical PLTs, but avoiding them is reasonable; they are to functions what copy relocations are to data.

Putting main in a shared library sounds particularly cursed, but I guess it's not uncommon for testing frameworks. Presumably this is for libgtest_main.

This revision is now accepted and ready to land.May 20 2024, 5:32 PM

It was for something in the Google testing bits.

This revision was automatically updated to reflect the committed changes.