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Description of problem:

There are two cases then ld.bfd does not insert veneers on aarch64:
- "the target symbol and relocated place are in separate sections"
- if you are building a shared library and a function call goes through PLT stub. PLT stub ends up outside of +/-128MB range.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

The problems are present in trunk (last tested July 13) of binutils.

How reproducible:

All the details are in referenced PR in sourceware bugzilla.

Fixes for both issues are now posted for review:

[AArch64] PR18668, Generate long branch veneer if call to plt stub is out of range
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-07/msg00137.html

[AArch64] Long branch veneer support far symbol defined by --defsym
https://sourceware.org/ml/binutils/2015-07/msg00210.html

Created attachment 1096127 [details]
Proposed patch

Once the 7.3 branch is created, this patch can be used to fix this BZ...

binutils-2.25.1-7.el7 now contains the full patch.

Verified for build binutils-2.25.1-19.base.el7.

*** Bug 1360941 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***

Since the problem described in this bug report should be
resolved in a recent advisory, it has been closed with a
resolution of ERRATA.

For information on the advisory, and where to find the updated
files, follow the link below.

If the solution does not work for you, open a new bug report.

https://rhn.redhat.com/errata/RHBA-2016-2265.html