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cmd/link: executable contains the full path of GOROOT (even with -ldflags -w) #12770

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typeless opened this issue Sep 28, 2015 · 5 comments
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cmd/link: executable contains the full path of GOROOT (even with -ldflags -w) #12770

typeless opened this issue Sep 28, 2015 · 5 comments
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$ uname -a
Darwin users-MacBook-Air.local 14.5.0 Darwin Kernel Version 14.5.0: Wed Jul 29 02:26:53 PDT 2015; root:xnu-2782.40.9~1/RELEASE_X86_64 x86_64
$ go version
go version devel +c468957 Sun Sep 27 01:04:59 2015 +0000 darwin/amd64

# The only thing the program does is fmt.Print("Hello\n")
$ cd hello
$ go build -ldflags -w
$ hexdump -C hello | grep -c `basename $HOME`
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@adg adg changed the title Compiled executable contains the full path of home directory (even with -ldflags -w) cmd/link: executable contains the full path of GOROOT (even with -ldflags -w) Sep 28, 2015
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adg commented Sep 28, 2015

It's the GOROOT (the path to your Go install), which just happens to be in $HOME on your system.

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Looks like these path strings reside in __TEXT __gopclntab

$ otool -sv __TEXT __gopclntab hello

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minux commented Sep 28, 2015 via email

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minux commented Sep 28, 2015 via email

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rakyll commented Sep 28, 2015

Duplicate of #3467.

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