Summary:
PowerPC has two PLT models: BSS-PLT and Secure-PLT. BSS-PLT uses runtime
code generation to generate the PLT stubs. Secure-PLT was introduced with
GCC 4.1 and Binutils 2.17 (base has GCC 4.2.1 and Binutils 2.17), and is a
more secure PLT format, using a read-only linkage table, with the dynamic
linker populating a non-executable index table.
This is the libc, rtld, and kernel support only. The toolchain and build
parts will be updated separately.
Reviewed By: nwhitehorn, bdragon, pfg
Differential Revision: https://reviews.freebsd.org/D20598
MFC after: 1 month
Mainly focus on files that use BSD 3-Clause license.
The Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX) group provides a specification
to make it easier for automated tools to detect and summarize well known
opensource licenses. We are gradually adopting the specification, noting
that the tags are considered only advisory and do not, in any way,
superceed or replace the license texts.
Special thanks to Wind River for providing access to "The Duke of
Highlander" tool: an older (2014) run over FreeBSD tree was useful as a
starting point.
