On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:17:47AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote: > > > Who can tell me how well our linker understands what gcc puts out when > given a __thread directive.. We need a binutils update anyway. The assembler doesn't understand the output of the compiler on most platforms anyway. See also: http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html It says that only ia64 has full GNU toolchain support (which is unsurprising). > The BIG question is "who knows enough about the dynamic linker to be > able to make this work for dynamic libraries..?" I gather that our > dynamic linker is not the one that linux uses and is specific to us. (Am > I wrong?) No, you're correct. There's a big part for the dynamic linker to make it all work. The hard part for me now is how to distribute the related features across kernel, rtld, libc and the various threading libraries to make it work in all cases (ie complete vs shared, static vs dynamic and threaded vs non-threaded) and without pessimizing non-TLS binaries. -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel_at_xcllnt.netReceived on Wed Feb 25 2004 - 08:46:04 UTC
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