Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> writes: > * Michal Suchánek: > >> On Wed, 31 Oct 2018 18:20:56 +0100 >> Florian Weimer <fweimer@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> And it needs to be built with: >>> >>> go build -ldflags=-extldflags=-pie extld.go >>> >>> I'm not entirely sure what to make of this, but I'm worried that this >>> could be a regression that matters to userspace. >> >> I encountered the same when trying to build go on ppc64le. I am not >> familiar with the internals so I just let it be. >> >> It does not seem to matter to any other userspace. > > It would matter to C code which returns the address of a global variable > in the main program through and (implicit) int return value. I wonder if this is restricted to linker that Golang uses. Were you able to reproduce the same problem with Binutils' linker? -- Tulio Magno
