Maamoun TK maamoun.tk@googlemail.com writes:
Forcing ELFv2 abi doesn't work for big-endian mode as this mode has no support for ELFv2. ppc64 linux big-endian is deprecated, it' not unexpected to get such issues. Dropping big-endian support for powerpc could be an option to solve this issue but that will be a drawback for AIX (BE) systems.
The configuration where it didn't work was powerpc64-openwrt-linux-musl. I'd like Nettle to work on embedded systems whenever practical. But support depends on assistance from users of those systems.
As I understood it, this system needs to use the v2 ABI. I would hope it's easy to detect the abi used by the configured C compiler, and then select the same prologue sequence as is currently used for little-endian. I.e., one more configure test, and changing the "ifelse(WORDS_BIGENDIAN,no," condition in powerpc64/machine.m4 to check a different configure variable.
I don't know how the linker detected abi incompatibility (ld error message like "gcm-hash.o: ABI version 1 is not compatible with ABI version 2 output"), if that's based just on the presence of the special ".opd" section, or if there are other attributes in the ELF file, and if so, how the assembler decides which attributes to attach.
Regards, /Niels