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Date:      Thu, 3 Aug 2006 13:10:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Maxim Sobolev <sobomax@sippysoft.com>
Cc:        "current@freebsd.org" <current@freebsd.org>, freebsd-ppc@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Looks like threading is b0rken on FreeBSD/powerpc
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0608031307200.13543@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <44D22C7A.8030204@sippysoft.com>
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On Thu, 3 Aug 2006, Maxim Sobolev wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> On Wed, 2 Aug 2006, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> 
>>> 
>>> On Aug 2, 2006, at 3:44 PM, Maxim Sobolev wrote:
>>> 
>>>> Hi,
>>>> 
>>>> Apparently threading is b0rken on the FreeBSD/powerpc - csup(8) dumps 
>>>> core with seg 11. The same csup(8) version compiled on 6.0 works just 
>>>> fine on the same 7-CURRENT kernel.
>> 
>> AFAIK, libpthread/KSE isn't quite there yet for powerpc.
>
> Do you have any idea about what's wrong with it? By the way, the same problem 
> affects ia64 too (ia64/91846) and it has been working in 6.0 just file. Looks 
> like it has something to do with the thread-local storage.

No, I've no idea.  Nothing's changed that I know of.  I'm surprised
that it (powerpc libpthread) works!  I know some supporting MD bits
were added to libpthread but never knew that they actually worked :)

Has the compiler changed recently?

-- 
DE



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