Landing: ab572c2269df
Project / Subsystem
binutils / alpha
Date
2026-09-05
Author
Sam James <sjames@sourceware.org>
Commit
ab572c2269df22364bd7fd3cd4ba7c642de5c0e6
Source
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- Alpha: Set DF_TEXTREL directly, avoid spurious flags
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- Fixes Alpha linker to correctly set DF_TEXTREL flag, preventing incorrect dynamic linking behavior.
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- Sam James <sjames@sourceware.org>
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- • linker
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- 2026-09-05T00:00:00.000Z
This commit corrects an issue in the Alpha ELF backend where the DF_TEXTREL flag was being incorrectly set by ORing DT_TEXTREL into info->flags. This unintentionally introduced other flags like DF_SYMBOLIC and DF_STATIC_TLS, causing shared libraries with text relocations against global symbols to be treated as if linked with -Bsymbolic. This could lead to dlopen failures and incorrect relaxation of TLS references. The fix directly sets DF_TEXTREL using its correct value.