Re: libmudflap and emutls question

[Jie Zhang <jie dot zhang at analog dot com>]

Hi Paolo,

Thanks for your review!

Paolo Bonzini wrote:
> > +    AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([__thread int a; int b; int main() { return a = b; }],
> > +		      [if grep __emutls_get_address conftest.$ac_objext >/dev/null ; then
>
> grepping in a binary file is not portable.  If this works it would be
> better:
>
> AC_COMPILE_IFELSE([[__thread int a; int b;
> extern void __emutls_get_address();
> int main() {
>   __emutls_get_address();
>   return a = b;
> }]],
> [gcc_cv_use_emutls=yes],
> [gcc_cv_use_emutls=no])
This does not work. For x86_64 native gcc, the compiler output is

$ gcc -c test.c
test.c:2: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 
‘__emutls_get_address’

For Blackfin gcc, the compiler output is

$ bfin-uclinux-gcc -c test.c
test.c:2: warning: conflicting types for built-in function 
‘__emutls_get_address’

Both are same.

I thought about using "int __emutls_v.a;" to trigger duplicate 
definitions, but C don't allow dot in symbol name. If there is something 
like AC_COMPILE_IFELSE but output assembly file instead of object file, 
it will be the best choice. But I don't know if it exists. There is an 
existing practice in autoconf (c.m4), which greps object file to find 
out endianness. So I think grep object file might be acceptable.

> Otherwise, the configury parts look fine to me.


Regards,
Jie