Re: TLS. nptl and gcc/glibc/binutils
On Sun, Apr 20, 2003 at 12:51:43PM -0400, Jack Howarth wrote:
> I am wondering if there is a gameplan on adding the support for
> enabling TLS support in the devtools in sid. In particular, in trying
> to build the current debian glibc cvs 2.3.2-1 release I noticed that
> linuxthreads support was broken upstream. Uli seems to think this will
> happen more frequently now that they are focused on nptl and paying
> less attention to the old linuxthreads code.
> Do we plan to add backports of the TLS changes to gcc 3.2.3 as
> redhat has done or should we stick with gcc 3.3 if we want to build
> glibc with TLS support? Just curious what the plan is on this
> transition.
My thought is that gcc-3.3 will be out soon enough for us to use that.
The biggest problem is that Debian's kernels don't have futex support.
I've heard that RedHat has some solution for automatically detecting
which they should use, but I don't know anything about it.
Tks,
Jeff Bailey
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