On Wed, 2018-10-31 at 18:54 +0100, Florian Weimer wrote: > > It would matter to C code which returns the address of a global variable > in the main program through and (implicit) int return value. > > The old behavior hid some pointer truncation issues. Hiding bugs like that is never a good idea.. > > Maybe it would be good idea to generate 64bit relocations on 64bit > > targets? > > Yes, the Go toolchain definitely needs fixing for PIE. I don't dispute > that. There was never any ABI guarantee that programs would be loaded below 4G... it just *happened*, so that's not per-se an ABI change. That said, I'm surprised of the choice of address.. I would have rather moved to above 1TB to benefit from 1T segments... Nick, Anton, do you know anything about that change ? Ben.
