svn commit: r200797 - head/lib/libc/stdtime

[Roman Divacky]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:16:48PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote:
> In message: <20091221220004.GA42400 at alchemy.franken.de>
>             Marius Strobl <marius at alchemy.franken.de> writes:
> : On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:59:21PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote:
> : > On Monday 21 December 2009 2:43:23 pm John Baldwin wrote:
> : > > Author: jhb
> : > > Date: Mon Dec 21 19:43:23 2009
> : > > New Revision: 200797
> : > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200797
> : > > 
> : > > Log:
> : > >   Use _once() to initialize the pthread key for thread-local storage to hold
> : > >   the results of localtime() instead of using a pthread mutex directly.
> : > 
> : > It would probably be simpler to use TLS for this instead, but I'm not sure if
> : > we have working TLS on all supported platforms.
> : > 
> : 
> : At least not on arm and sparc64 as the in-tree binutils predate
> : GNU TLS support for these.
> 
> We really need newer binutils in the tree.
> 
> And we need a way to compiler gplv3 binutils into the system for folks
> that can do that without consequences...  But many modern processors
> need to have the gplv3 version of binutils and that will be a
> continuing problem.  One advantage of FreeBSD is its integration,
> rather than having to play version whack-a-mole like you do with
> embedded Linux.

well... llvm provides its own assembler so if the need for newer binutils
comes from need of newer as I believe llvm can help here. or is the linker
the problem?