Pthread patches for TLS

Petri Helenius pete at he.iki.fi
Thu Aug 5 08:17:07 PDT 2004


Doug Rabson wrote:

>I haven't tried to support static linked TLS at all. The plan is to get 
>the kernel to size the TLS segment and add extra AUXARGs to report its 
>size, initialiser location and alignment. The stubs in libc/gen/tls.c 
>would be extended to provide support for allocating the TLS blocks in 
>the static case.
>
>I was under the impression that no-one particularly wanted to support 
>pthreads in statically linked binaries?
>
>  
>
Does this still allow for some, non-thread libraries to be linked 
statically as long as libpthread is dynamically linked?

Pete



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