Re: RISC-V ABI issue with ULEB128

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* David Abdurachmanov:

> On Tue, Jan 2, 2024 at 1:09 PM Richard W.M. Jones <rjones@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>
>>
>> I'm not sure exactly the effect on RISC-V binaries, but I wanted to
>> raise it here to get the attention of the Fedora toolchain team ...
>>
>> Here's the bug:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=31179
>> RISC-V: The SET/ADD/SUB fix breaks ABI compatibility with 2.41 objects
>>
>> It refers to this change in binutils 2.41:
>>
>> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=73d931e560059a87d76f528fafbb4270a98746bc
>>
>> As far as I understand the issue (which is not too far) this mainly
>> affects shipped *.o and *.a files (ie. static libraries and similar)
>> which were compiled with binutils < 2.41, which either won't link
>> correctly or will give a linker error when using GNU ld from binutils 2.41.
>
> Correction. This is broken in <= 2.41 (incl. the current stable
> binutils release).
>
>>
>> Unclear if it also affects *.so files (which would be a much more
>> serious ABI break), and also if it affects most binaries or just a
>> few.  I initially thought this only affected programs using 128 bit
>> ints, so didn't think it was too important, but after reading the
>> commit I'm not sure that is really true.
>
> Nelson Chu committed (5 days ago) a change:
>
> https://sourceware.org/git/?p=binutils-gdb.git;a=commit;h=73d931e560059a87d76f528fafbb4270a98746bc
>
> This will accept whatever is produced by <= 2.41 and the final binary
> will be correct. There is also a new ld flag (--check-uleb128) which
> can produce a warning if it detects an issue.
>
> I plan/hope to use binutils 2.42 in Fedora/RISCV 40. That would happen
> before I start mass rebuilding, and that should fix this.

Cc:ing Nick and Siddhesh for awareness.

The current plan is to use binutils 2.41 for the mass rebuild.

Thanks,
Florian
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