On Thu, Feb 7, 2019 at 9:11 AM Borislav Petkov <b...@alien8.de> wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 07, 2019 at 09:04:45AM -0800, Thomas Garnier wrote: > > I assume that's an optimisation done by gcc later. > > So why is that change even needed? Where does it break? > > > The P modifier in the documentation does state that it is used to > > generate PIC code. > > The documentation says: > > "If used for a function, print the PLT suffix and generate PIC code. For > example, emit foo@PLT instead of ’foo’ for the function foo()." > > when you use %P for a function. Which is not how it is used here.
I did more checks about that. I think Ard's patch to make jump label relative actually fixed the issue I had with them. Thanks for spotting this, I will do additional checks and look at removing this change. > > -- > Regards/Gruss, > Boris. > > Good mailing practices for 400: avoid top-posting and trim the reply.
