Looks like threading is b0rken on FreeBSD/powerpc

[Peter Grehan]

>>  jemalloc. From the backtrace, t's doing a TLS allocation, where I'm 
>> certain phkmalloc didn't do anything like that.
>
> Indeed, jemalloc does add a dependency on TLS for PIC versions, though 
> it can be configured to run (more slowly) without TLS, as Marcel pointed 
> out.  This appears to be a bug in the TLS implementation, rather than in 
> jemalloc; the appropriate fix is to make TLS work.

  Exactly. I was pointing out the difference, sorry if it appeared to be 
putting blame on jemalloc.

later,

Peter.