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    arm: rewrite crtbegin* as C files. · 9d403268
    Nick Kralevich authored
    Rewrite
     crtbegin.S     -> crtbegin.c
     crtbegin_so.S  -> crtbegin_so.c
    
    This change allows us to generate PIC code without relying
    on text relocations.
    
    As a consequence of this rewrite, also rewrite
      __dso_handle.S    -> __dso_handle.c
      __dso_handle_so.S -> __dso_handle_so.c
      atexit.S          -> atexit.c
    
    In crtbegin.c _start, place the __PREINIT_ARRAY__, __INIT_ARRAY__,
    __FINI_ARRAY__, and __CTOR_LIST__ variables onto the stack, instead of
    passing a pointer to the text section of the binary.
    
    This change appears sorta wonky, as I attempted to preserve,
    as much as possible, the structure of the original assembly.
    As a result, you have C files including other C files, and other
    programming uglyness.
    
    Result: This change reduces the number of files with text-relocations
    from 315 to 19 on my Android build.
    
    Before:
      $ scanelf -aR $OUT/system | grep TEXTREL | wc -l
      315
    
    After:
      $ scanelf -aR $OUT/system | grep TEXTREL | wc -l
      19
    
    Change-Id: Ib9f98107c0eeabcb606e1ddc7ed7fc4eba01c9c4
    9d403268
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