Date: Thu, 5 Aug 2004 11:19:48 -0400 (EDT) From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> To: Doug Rabson <dfr@nlsystems.com> Cc: freebsd-threads@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Pthread patches for TLS Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10408051116490.3077-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10408051101380.756-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
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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.freebsd-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... -- Dan Eischen
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