[RFC] tools/nolibc: x86_64: Make it compile with -pie

From: Vitaly Chikunov
Date: Sun Aug 20 2023 - 14:32:19 EST


Use RIP-relative addressing when setting `environ` and `_auxv` in
startup code.

Some toolchains have `-pie` enabled by default. On them or when -pie is
specified manually gcc produces error like this:

ld: /tmp/cci0uPcR.o: relocation R_X86_64_32S against symbol `environ' can not be used when making a PIE object; recompile with -fPIE
ld: failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value

This is because asm() startup code accesses there pointers with absolute
addressing.

This may inspire others to fix the problem for other architectures too.

Signed-off-by: Vitaly Chikunov <vt@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h | 4 ++--
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h
index 6fc4d8392742..a6be44b333ce 100644
--- a/tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h
+++ b/tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86_64.h
@@ -199,14 +199,14 @@ void __attribute__((weak,noreturn,optimize("omit-frame-pointer"))) __no_stack_pr
"pop %rdi\n" /* argc (first arg, %rdi) */
"mov %rsp, %rsi\n" /* argv[] (second arg, %rsi) */
"lea 8(%rsi,%rdi,8),%rdx\n" /* then a NULL then envp (third arg, %rdx) */
- "mov %rdx, environ\n" /* save environ */
+ "mov %rdx, environ(%rip)\n" /* save environ */
"xor %ebp, %ebp\n" /* zero the stack frame */
"mov %rdx, %rax\n" /* search for auxv (follows NULL after last env) */
"0:\n"
"add $8, %rax\n" /* search for auxv using rax, it follows the */
"cmp -8(%rax), %rbp\n" /* ... NULL after last env (rbp is zero here) */
"jnz 0b\n"
- "mov %rax, _auxv\n" /* save it into _auxv */
+ "mov %rax, _auxv(%rip)\n" /* save it into _auxv */
"and $-16, %rsp\n" /* x86 ABI : esp must be 16-byte aligned before call */
"call main\n" /* main() returns the status code, we'll exit with it. */
"mov %eax, %edi\n" /* retrieve exit code (32 bit) */
--
2.33.8