[Bug ld/24784] elf_x86_64_check_tls_transition should allow R_X86_64_GOTPCREL (-fno-plt)

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https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=24784

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The master branch has been updated by Fangrui Song <maskray@sourceware.org>:

https://sourceware.org/git/gitweb.cgi?p=binutils-gdb.git;h=2cef48423031d23d319692ceced5ad0110625f69

commit 2cef48423031d23d319692ceced5ad0110625f69
Author: Fangrui Song <maskray@google.com>
Date:   Fri Mar 10 11:55:09 2023 -0800

    ld: Allow R_386_GOT32 for call *__tls_get_addr@GOT(%reg)

    Similar to d58854b6dd88e05dbf2a5d1c32c5acb7bd6ea274 for x86_64.

    _Thread_local int a;
    int main() { return a; }

    % gcc -m32 -fno-plt -fpic a.c -fuse-ld=bfd -Wa,-mrelax-relocations=no
    /usr/bin/ld.bfd: /tmp/ccR8Yexy.o: TLS transition from R_386_TLS_GD to
R_386_TLS_IE_32 against `a' at 0x15 in section `.text' failed
    /usr/bin/ld.bfd: failed to set dynamic section sizes: bad value
    collect2: error: ld returned 1 exit status

    This commit fixes the issue.

    There is an argument that the -fno-plt TLS sequence was added after
    R_386_GOT32X was required for call *func@GOT(%ebx), so R_386_GOT32 was
    intended to be unsupported.

    Unfortunately this standpoint has caused interop difficulty: some
    projects specify -mrelax-relocations=no to build relocatable object
    files compatible with older linkers (e.g.
    https://github.com/IHaskell/IHaskell/issues/636) or do so by accident
    (e.g. https://github.com/rust-lang/rust/pull/106511 not addressed as of
    today).  Many uses have not been cleaned up in practice, and compiling
    with -fno-plt will lead to the `TLS transition from R_386_TLS_GD ...`
    error which is hard to reason about.

    It seems easier to apply this simple change to prevent the footgun.

        PR ld/24784
        * bfd/elf32-i386.c (elf_i386_check_tls_transition): Allow R_386_GOT32.

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