Date: Sat, 31 Mar 2007 10:05:15 -0400 From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@gmail.com> To: Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Thread local storage not working with -fPIC and shared objects Message-ID: <20070331100515.15b62e92@kan.dnsalias.net> In-Reply-To: <200703310426.23953.pieter@degoeje.nl> References: <200703310426.23953.pieter@degoeje.nl>
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On Sat, 31 Mar 2007 04:26:23 +0200
Pieter de Goeje <pieter@degoeje.nl> wrote:
> Hello List,
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> I have these files:
> --- loader.cpp ---
> #include <stdio.h>
> #include "tls.h"
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> int main() {
> tls =3D 0;
> printf("%d\n", tls);
> }
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> --- tls.cpp ---
> #include "tls.h"
> int __thread tls;
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> --- tls.h ---
> extern __thread int tls;
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> When I compile them like this:
> c++ -fPIC -o tls.so tls.cpp -shared
> c++ -fPIC -o loader loader.cpp tls.so
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> And run the resulting program, I get:
> pyotr@nox:~/projects/misc/tls> ./loader
> /libexec/ld-elf.so.1: ./loader: Unsupported relocation type 37 in
> non-PLT relocations
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> When I omit -fPIC, it runs fine. But I need fPIC for the shared
> object on amd64 arch. I've tried it on Linux/i386 (gcc 4.1) and it
> ran fine (with fPIC).
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> Much to my surprise however, a particularly large application I'm
> working on did compile & run on FreeBSD/amd64 using -fpic (lowercase)
> and gcc 4.3. Trying -fpic on FreeBSD/i386 resulted in failure.
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> FYI, I need tls to work because I'm using OpenMP's tls (#pragma omp=20
> threadprivate()) support in gcc 4.3.
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> The workaround I found on FreeBSD/amd64 was linking the main
> executable with -fno-PIC, or building everything with -fpic. (both
> workarounds didn't work on FreeBSD/i386)
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> I would be grateful if someone could shed some light on this.
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There is no reason whatsoever to compile main binary code with -f[pP]ic.
Executables are not shared libraries and stuffing position independent
code into them makes no sense.
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Alexander Kabaev
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