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cmd/link: temporary empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table #27800

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grantseltzer opened this issue Sep 21, 2018 · 5 comments
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cmd/link: temporary empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table #27800

grantseltzer opened this issue Sep 21, 2018 · 5 comments
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grantseltzer commented Sep 21, 2018 •
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Please answer these questions before submitting your issue. Thanks!

What version of Go are you using (go version)?

go version go1.10.3 linux/amd64

Does this issue reproduce with the latest release?

Yes

What operating system and processor architecture are you using (go env)?

GOARCH="amd64"
GOBIN=""
GOCACHE="/home/grant/.cache/go-build"
GOEXE=""
GOHOSTARCH="amd64"
GOHOSTOS="linux"
GOOS="linux"
GOPATH="/home/grant/go"
GORACE=""
GOROOT="/usr/lib/golang"
GOTMPDIR=""
GOTOOLDIR="/usr/lib/golang/pkg/tool/linux_amd64"
GCCGO="gccgo"
CC="gcc"
CXX="g++"
CGO_ENABLED="1"
CGO_CFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_CPPFLAGS=""
CGO_CXXFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_FFLAGS="-g -O2"
CGO_LDFLAGS="-g -O2"
PKG_CONFIG="pkg-config"
GOGCCFLAGS="-fPIC -m64 -pthread -fmessage-length=0 -fdebug-prefix-map=/tmp/go-build731681085=/tmp/go-build -gno-record-gcc-switches"

What did you do?

I was doing disassembly related research and noticed that there's a whole bunch of empty symbols in the symbol table that seem to have been for temporary purposes. Things like: unicode.statictmp_103

gist of the go program and its output

What did you expect to see?

No temporary empty symbols being part of the compiled ELF symbol table

What did you see instead?

Temporary empty symbols being part of the compiled ELF symbol table
@odeke-em odeke-em changed the title Empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table cmd/link: empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table Sep 22, 2018
@odeke-em odeke-em added the NeedsInvestigation Someone must examine and confirm this is a valid issue and not a duplicate of an existing one. label Sep 22, 2018
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Kindly paging some linker folks @ianlancetaylor @heschik @thanm @aclements

@bcmills bcmills added this to the Unplanned milestone Sep 22, 2018
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What's the problem with 0-sized symbols? For a C program compiled with GCC, there are also a bunch of 0-sized symbols.

@grantseltzer grantseltzer changed the title cmd/link: empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table cmd/link: temporary empty symbols are being stored in the ELF symbol table Sep 23, 2018
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@cherrymui 0-sized symbols isn't the issue, it's the temporary ones such as:

{Name:unicode.statictmp_111 Info:17 Other:0 Section:SHN_UNDEF+11 Value:5623968 Size:0}

I wasn't clear about that in the issue title/description. Updated.

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Change https://golang.org/cl/142497 mentions this issue: cmd/compile,cmd/link: avoid collisions between statictmps and user vars

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Change https://golang.org/cl/142577 mentions this issue: cmd/compile,cmd/link: remove statictmp variables from symbol table.

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