Bug 970864 - Testsuite failure: Extra PLT reference
Summary: Testsuite failure: Extra PLT reference
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Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE
Alias: None
Product: Fedora
Classification: Fedora
Component: glibc
Version: rawhide
Hardware: Unspecified
OS: Unspecified
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Carlos O'Donell
QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance
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TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2013-06-05 06:39 UTC by Siddhesh Poyarekar
Modified: 2016-11-24 12:14 UTC (History)
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Last Closed: 2013-06-20 09:23:23 UTC
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Description Siddhesh Poyarekar 2013-06-05 06:39:29 UTC
Description of problem:
The current rawhide build (in progress, 2.17.90-1.fc20) has an extra PLT reference in libc.so:

=====/builddir/build/BUILD/glibc-2.17-757-g96df079/build-x86_64-redhat-linux/elf/check-localplt.out=====
Extra PLT reference: libc.so: memset

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
glibc-2.17.90-1.fc20

How Reproducible:
Always

Steps to Reproduce:
See build log.

Comment 1 Siddhesh Poyarekar 2013-06-11 03:28:47 UTC
binutils is getting the symbol name wrong somehow, but the breakage is real.  The extra PLT is for __GI___gettimeofday, not memset.  the F17 version of binutils also got the name wrong as malloc, but since malloc is excluded from the extra PLT check, this failure went unnoticed.

There's no point in avoiding a PLT for __gettimeofday and for similar reasons, the hidden definition is also useless.  Any overhead added to avoid the PLT would be more expensive that the additional PLT.  I'm considering removing those bits and adding a direct call to __gettimeofday.


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