Re: [PATCH][PING2] PR39888, implement access to emutls and other gcc improvements.

[Andreas Tobler <andreast-list at fgznet dot ch>]

Jack Howarth wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 12, 2009 at 12:05:59PM -0500, Jack Howarth wrote:
> >    According to Peter O'Gorman, the FSF paperwork for Iain Sandoe
> > has cleared now. The proposed patch to solve PR39888 on darwin by
> > implementing a libgcc-ext library...
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-10/msg00120.html
> >
> > has already been approved by a darwin maintainer...
> >
> > http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-10/msg00315.html
> >
> > Can we get a commit of this patch into gcc trunk? I have been
> > testing all of my x86_64-apple-darwin10 builds with this patch.
> >                      Jack
>
> I would also add that committing the above patch would clear the way
> for the proposed patch...
>
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2008-12/msg01259.html
> http://gcc.gnu.org/ml/gcc-patches/2009-09/msg01545.html
>
> This change which enabled tls as the default could be added back
> to gcc trunk without breaking darwin since libgcc-ext will provide
> us with functional tls support.
>               Jack

I committed this patch this morning to trunk. Please close the PR if ok.

Andreas