Re: TLS support?

[Jason Thorpe <thorpej%shagadelic.org@localhost>]

On May 6, 2009, at 11:30 PM, Phil Nelson wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   I recently ran into some code using the __thread qualifier and it  
> appears
> that it is not supported on at least the i386 platform.   Using that  
> in a shared
> library generated an undefined ___tls_get_addr() call and just using  
> it in
> a simple program with pthreads causes a seg fault.
>
>    I was wondering if anyone knew the state of TLS support and/or  
> what it
> would take to get it fully supported.

At the very least, someone needs to add the necessary relocations to  
ld.elf_so.

>   Thanks.
> --Phil
>
> --
> Phil Nelson (phil at cs.wwu.edu) http://www.cs.wwu.edu/nelson
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-- thorpej