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ww/cmd/6l/pass.c
Hojun-Cho ecf0a84127 6l: dynamic linking with symbol versioning
Teach the linker to consume ET_DYN shared objects and emit a
dynamically-linked ELF executable. Snake et al. can now link
against libncurses + libc through the system dynamic loader.

Pipeline additions:

- dyn.c: read ET_DYN, parse .dynsym + DT_SONAME, walk
  .gnu.version_d / .gnu.version to learn each export's default
  version (skip hidden entries).
- pass.c: when an undefined sym is provided by some Lso,
  promote it to dynamic, assign a PLT slot, record the
  matched version on the Lsym.
- dynout.c: emit PT_INTERP + PT_DYNAMIC, .dynsym/.dynstr/.hash,
  .plt + .got.plt + .rela.plt, .gnu.version + .gnu.version_r,
  and the full DT_* set with DT_BIND_NOW. Patch PC32/PLT32
  references against dyn syms to point at their PLT stubs.
- main.c: -L<dir> and -l<name> flag parsing; resolve <name>
  via .so / .so.<N> / .a in libdir order, skipping GNU ld
  linker scripts (libc.so on most distros).
- ww driver: collect -l/-L (joined and split forms) and pass
  through to 6l.

Design choices:

- DT_BIND_NOW so the loader resolves all PLT slots at startup;
  no PLT0 lazy resolver stub.
- SysV .hash, not .gnu.hash. One bucket; loader scans the
  chain. Slow at scale, fine for snake-class binaries.
- Non-PIE at fixed 0x400000.
- No section headers — loader uses program headers, but
  readelf -V/-S won't display anything.

Symbol versioning is the only correctness item beyond the
basic PLT/GOT machinery: glibc symbols default to versions
later than GLIBC_2.2.5 (e.g. clock_gettime → GLIBC_2.17 for
the vDSO impl), and the loader rejects unversioned references
to those without a matching Vernaux entry.

test/wwc/810_dyn covers four cases: bare libc dyn call,
multi-PLT, clock_gettime versioning, and fn-pointer to FFI
binding (which exercises the codegen fixes from the parent
commit alongside the new linker path).
2026-05-11 09:42:27 +09:00

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/*
* pass.c — resolution + relocation. After all objects are loaded:
*
* l_resolve : check that every symbol referenced by a relocation
* is defined somewhere. Errors get logged.
* l_relocate: with the final virtual base address known, walk the
* relocation list and patch the .text bytes in place.
*
* Supported relocation kinds: PC32 (2), PLT32 (4). Both are PC-relative
* 32-bit displacements; for static linking PLT32 collapses to PC32.
*/
#include "l.h"
#include <stdio.h>
#include <string.h>
#define R_X86_64_PC32 2
#define R_X86_64_PLT32 4
int
l_resolve(Lnk *l)
{
/* Initialise dynamic-linking fields. plt_idx and dynsym_idx
* default to -1; l_intern sets is_dyn/dyn_lib to 0/NULL via
* calloc, but we make the invariants explicit here for clarity. */
for (Lsym *s = l->syms; s; s = s->next) {
s->plt_idx = -1;
s->dynsym_idx = -1;
}
/* Promote each undefined sym that some Lso exports to "dynamic"
* and hand it a PLT slot. Order is the iteration order over the
* relocation list; that determines slot numbering and is stable
* across runs (rels are pushed onto the head as objects load). */
for (Lrel *r = l->rels; r; r = r->next) {
if (r->sym == NULL || r->sym->defined) continue;
if (r->sym->is_dyn) continue; /* already promoted */
for (Lso *so = l->sos; so; so = so->next) {
const char *ver = NULL;
if (l_so_provides_v(so, r->sym->name, &ver)) {
r->sym->is_dyn = 1;
r->sym->dyn_lib = so;
r->sym->dyn_version = ver; /* may be NULL */
r->sym->plt_idx = l->dyn_n++;
break;
}
}
}
/* What remains undefined truly is undefined. */
for (Lrel *r = l->rels; r; r = r->next) {
if (r->sym == NULL) continue;
if (!r->sym->defined && !r->sym->is_dyn) {
fprintf(stderr, "6l: undefined reference to '%s'\n",
r->sym->name);
l->errs++;
}
}
return l->errs;
}
static void
patch_u32(u8 *p, u32 v)
{
p[0] = (u8)(v & 0xff);
p[1] = (u8)((v >> 8) & 0xff);
p[2] = (u8)((v >> 16) & 0xff);
p[3] = (u8)((v >> 24) & 0xff);
}
int
l_relocate(Lnk *l, u64 base)
{
for (Lrel *r = l->rels; r; r = r->next) {
if (r->sym == NULL) continue;
/* Dynamic syms are patched later, in l_emit_elf, once the
* PLT's virtual address is known. */
if (r->sym->is_dyn) continue;
if (!r->sym->defined) continue;
switch (r->kind) {
case R_X86_64_PC32:
case R_X86_64_PLT32: {
u64 site = base + r->off;
i64 target = (i64)(base + r->sym->val);
i64 rel = target - (i64)site + r->addend;
patch_u32(l->text + r->off, (u32)(i32)rel);
break;
}
default:
fprintf(stderr, "6l: unsupported reloc kind %d\n",
r->kind);
l->errs++;
}
}
return l->errs;
}