John Reiser jreiser@bitwagon.com
Mon Jan 15 21:46:00 GMT 2018

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Most of the PLT entries (Program Linkage Table) that I see on aarch64
(64-bit ARM) contain code like (from binutils-gdb commit origin/master
e09efd5931daf7eede1f4da46313a1aaadd4dbfa of Mon Jan 8 00:00:33 2018 +0000):

===== binutils/bfd/elfnn-aarch64.c near line 299
   0x11, 0x02, 0x40, 0xf9,       /* ldr x17, [x16, PLTGOT + n * 8] */
   0x10, 0x02, 0x00, 0x91,       /* add x16, x16, :lo12:PLTGOT + n * 8  */
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but this can be implemented one instruction shorter as:
   0x11, 0x0e, 0x41, 0xf8,       /* ldr x17, [x16, PLTGOT + n * 8]! */
where the exclamation point '!' denotes a write-back of the entire
effective address (including the displacement) into the base register.

Here is a standalone demonstration that can be single-stepped under gdb:
===== gcc -o demo -nostartfiles -nostdlib demo.S
	.globl _start
_start:
	nop
	sub sp,sp,#4*8
	mov x0,0x1234; str x0,[sp,#0*8]
	mov x0,0x5678; str x0,[sp,#1*8]
	mov x0,0x9abc; str x0,[sp,#2*8]
	mov x0,0xdef0; str x0,[sp,#3*8]
	mov x16,sp
	ldr x17,[x16,#2*8]!  // x17 = 0x9abc; x16 += 2*8;
	nop
=====

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