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

[Roman Divacky]

On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 11:00:04PM +0100, Marius Strobl wrote:
> 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.

pardon my ignorance but what exactly is needed in binutils to support TLS? is it just
(g)as? or ld too?