PowerPC64 .branch_lt size change leads to "stubs don't match calculated size"
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=1523457 I haven't analyzed this myself, I'm relying on Nick's excellent analysis. What I believe is happening is that after some number of stub sizing iterations, a long-branch stub needs to be converted to a plt-branch, but either due to stub alignment or other stubs shrinking in size, the stub group section size doesn't change. That means we exit from ppc64_elf_size_stubs after sizing with an incorrect layout, in fact the additional .branch_lt entry overlays .got! Since .TOC. is normally set to .got + 0x8000 the stub sizing code decides that entry is within +/-32k of the TOC pointer and so a three insn stub is sufficient. When we come to build the stubs using a correct non-overlaying layout, a four insn plt-branch stub is generated and the stub group size doesn't match that calculated earlier. * elf64-ppc.c (ppc64_elf_size_stubs): Iterate sizing when .branch_lt changes size.
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