An R_*_IRELATIVE represents the address of a STT_GNU_IFUNC symbol
(redirected at runtime) which is non-preemptable and is not associated
with a canonical PLT (associated with a symbol with a section index of
SHN_UNDEF but a non-zero st_value).
.rel[a].plt [DT_JMPREL, DT_JMPREL+DT_JMPRELSZ) contains relocations that
can be lazily resolved. R_*_IRELATIVE are always eagerly resolved, so
conceptually they do not belong to .rela.plt. "iplt" is mostly a misnomer.
glibc powerpc and powerpc64 do not resolve R_*_IRELATIVE if they are in .rela.plt.
// a.o - synthesized PLT call stub has an R_*_IRELATIVE void ifunc(); int main() { ifunc(); } // b.o static void real() {} asm (".type ifunc, %gnu_indirect_function"); void *ifunc() { return ℜ }
The lld-linked executable crashes. ld.bfd places R_*_IRELATIVE in
.rela.dyn and the executable works.
glibc i386, x86_64, and aarch64 have logic
(glibc/sysdeps/*/dl-machine.h:elf_machine_lazy_rel) to eagerly resolve
R_*_IRELATIVE in .rel[a].plt so the lld-linked executable works.
Move R_*_IRELATIVE from .rel[a].plt to .rel[a].dyn to fix the crashes on
glibc powerpc/powerpc64. This also helps simplifying ifunc
implementation in FreeBSD rtld-elf powerpc64.
If --pack-dyn-relocs=android[+relr] is specified, the Android packed
dynamic relocation format is used for .rela.dyn. We cannot name
in.relaIplt ".rela.dyn" because the output section will have mixed
formats. This can be improved in the future.
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