On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 01:44:06PM -0800, Nick Desaulniers wrote: > aarch64-linux-gnu-ld: warning: -z norelro ignored > > So we set the emulation mode via -maarch64elf, and our preprocessed The default linker emulation for an aarch64-linux ld.bfd is -maarch64linux, the default for an aarch64-elf linker is -maarch64elf. They are not equivalent. If you choose -maarch64elf you get an emulation that doesn't support -z relro. Now I don't know why the kernel uses -maarch64elf so you shouldn't interpret my comment as a recommendation to use -maarch64linux instead. That may have other unwanted effects. -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
