Pthread patches for TLS

[Doug Rabson]

On Thursday 05 August 2004 16:19, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2004, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Thu, 5 Aug 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?
> >
> > The thread guys don't want to support static thread libraries ;-)
> > But I proposed this a few months ago (year?) in -current and there
> > was some reluctance.  Imp was one that was against it (from what I
> > can remember).  The reason given was speed of static binaries is
> > faster than dynamic.  I didn't force the issue any more than that.
> > That's how I recall it anyways.  I'll have to search the list
> > archives to see if I can find the thread.
>
> Found it.
>
>  
> http://docs.freebsd.org/mail/archive/2003/freebsd-arch/20030330.freeb
>sd-arch.html
>
> Look for "Not providing static libraries", Mar 26, 2003, freebsd-arch
>
> Note that Solaris doesn't have static thread libraries.  I'm not sure
> about Linux...

Looks like I'll have to look into getting TLS to work in the static 
case. Sigh.