macOS linker warnings in macOS ventura
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Description
Turns out ld shipped with Xcode 14+ emits a warning when using -undefined dynamic_lookup.`
ld: warning: -undefined dynamic_lookup may not work with chained fixups
Some investigation reveals that in fact -undefined dynamic_lookup doesn't work when:
- Link a shared library with the option
- Link it with a program that uses the chained-fixup introduced from macOS 12 and iOS 15
This is because -undefined dynamic_lookup uses lazy-bindings and they won't be bound while dyld fixes-up by traversing chained-fixup info.
However, we build extension modules with as bundles (-bundle) and they are loaded only through
dlopen, so it's safe to use -undefined dynamic_lookup in theory. So the warning produced by ld64 is
likely to be a false-positive.
ld64 also provides the -bundle_loader <executable> option, which allows resolving symbols defined in the executable symbol table while linking. It behaves almost the same with -undefined dynamic_lookup, but it makes the following changes:
- Require that unresolved symbols among input objects must be defined in the executable.
- Lazy symbol binding will lookup only the symbol table of the bundle loader executable. (
-undefined dynamic_lookuplookups all symbol tables as flat namespace)
See "New Features" subsection under "Linking" section for chained fixup
developer.apple.com/documentation/xcode-release-notes/xcode-13-release-notes for more information.
Also, check the same problem in ruby where most of this information is taken from.
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- Open a pull request that references the issue number.
Research direction
No files, tests, or entry points are named. Start by locating CPython's macOS extension-module linker configuration and the uses of -undefined dynamic_lookup; compare the current behavior with ld64's -bundle_loader option. Done means the Ventura/Xcode 14+ warning is addressed without breaking extension-module loading.
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Assessment
- Tech stack
- macos, python
- Domain
- build-system, operating-systems
- Issue type
- Bug
- Difficulty
- 4/5
- Estimated time
- 3-5 days
- Activity status
- Stale
- Clarity
- Needs clarification
- Newbie friendliness
- 35/100