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authorThiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>2012-01-23 11:46:58 -0200
committerThiago Macieira <thiago.macieira@intel.com>2022-03-10 17:10:57 -0800
commit19b7f854a274812d9c95fc7aaf134a12530c105f (patch)
tree1e9456ec5b076eff0cb1fac38be4808f66587dd2 /mkspecs
parent1818d6682da7b499f25d5918fb05c921c9e8596d (diff)
Enable -mno-direct-extern-access and ELF protected visibility
The -mno-direct-extern-access tells the compiler and linker that references to symbols outside this ELF module mustn't be direct and must instead always go through the GOT or PLT (the PLT can additionally be disabled with -fno-plt). The ELF protected visibility tells the compiler and linker that this symbol is present in the dynamic symbol table as an export, but it cannot be interposed by another ELF module. This option is required for user code to link properly to Qt, otherwise they will get linker errors (assuming GNU binutils >= 2.39) or runtime failures (glibc >= 2.35). Both versions of glibc and binutils are older than GCC 12, so it's a safe assumption they are in use and downgrading the toolchain or libc is not supported. Adding this option to the compilation is assured for CMake and qmake-based projects. For example, all accessess to QCoreApplication::self in QtCore, after this change and with GCC 12 are relocation-free and direct: 000000000013ebf0 <QCoreApplicationPrivate::checkInstance(char const*)>: 13ebf0: cmpq $0x0,0x4f73d0(%rip) # 635fc8 <QCoreApplication::self> 13ebf8: setne %al 13ebfb: je a90fe <QCoreApplicationPrivate::checkInstance(char const*) [clone .cold]> 13ec01: ret Meanwhile, accesses to the same variable in other modules are indirect via the GOT: 66650: mov 0x876e1(%rip),%rax # edd38 <QCoreApplication::self@Qt_6> 66657: cmpq $0x0,(%rax) This replaces the -Bsymbolic and -Bsymbolic-functions (broken) functionality that Qt has been using or attempting to use since ~2006. See https://gitlab.com/x86-psABIs/x86-64-ABI/-/issues/8#note_606975128 Change-Id: Iad4b0a3e5c06570b9f5f571b26ed564aa0811e47 Reviewed-by: Alexandru Croitor <alexandru.croitor@qt.io> Reviewed-by: Lars Knoll <lars.knoll@qt.io>
Diffstat (limited to 'mkspecs')
-rw-r--r--mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf2
-rw-r--r--mkspecs/features/qt.prf7
-rw-r--r--mkspecs/features/unix/mno_extern_direct_access.prf2
3 files changed, 10 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf b/mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf
index 1c27f34441..ae58326289 100644
--- a/mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf
+++ b/mkspecs/common/gcc-base.conf
@@ -45,7 +45,7 @@ QMAKE_CFLAGS_RELEASE_WITH_DEBUGINFO += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_OPTIMIZE -g
QMAKE_CFLAGS_DEBUG += -g
QMAKE_CFLAGS_SHLIB += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_PIC
QMAKE_CFLAGS_STATIC_LIB += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_PIC
-QMAKE_CFLAGS_APP += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_PIC
+QMAKE_CFLAGS_APP +=
QMAKE_CFLAGS_YACC += -Wno-unused -Wno-parentheses
QMAKE_CFLAGS_HIDESYMS += -fvisibility=hidden
QMAKE_CFLAGS_EXCEPTIONS_OFF += -fno-exceptions
diff --git a/mkspecs/features/qt.prf b/mkspecs/features/qt.prf
index 6fb657e6f2..0e03027bc3 100644
--- a/mkspecs/features/qt.prf
+++ b/mkspecs/features/qt.prf
@@ -58,6 +58,13 @@ qaxserver {
!force_import_plugins:!contains(TEMPLATE, ".*app"):!if(contains(TEMPLATE, ".*lib"):dll): \
CONFIG -= import_plugins
+unix {
+ contains(QT_CONFIG, no_extern_direct_access): CONFIG += mno_extern_direct_access
+ else:contains(QT_CONFIG, reduce_relocations):!contains(TEMPLATE, .*lib): {
+ QMAKE_CFLAGS += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_PIC
+ QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += $$QMAKE_CFLAGS_PIC
+ }
+}
# qmake variables cannot contain dashes, so normalize the names first
CLEAN_QT = $$replace(QT, -private$, _private)
diff --git a/mkspecs/features/unix/mno_extern_direct_access.prf b/mkspecs/features/unix/mno_extern_direct_access.prf
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000..816e28bb43
--- /dev/null
+++ b/mkspecs/features/unix/mno_extern_direct_access.prf
@@ -0,0 +1,2 @@
+QMAKE_CFLAGS += -mno-direct-extern-access
+QMAKE_CXXFLAGS += -mno-direct-extern-access