[ARM] TLS Descriptor support

Nathan Sidwell nathan@codesourcery.com
Tue May 31 13:03:00 GMT 2011


On 05/27/11 01:47, Ramana Radhakrishnan wrote:

> Could you consider adding a check in the configury to test if a binutils version
> of recent vintage is being used when --with-tls=gnu is in ?

I thought about that and it didn't seem worth it.  We're not autodetecting 
whether to default to gnu-style tls and you'll find out soon enough if your 
binutils is too old.

>
> Could you also use R0_REGNUM, R1_REGNUM instead of 0 and 1 in the "tlscall"
> pattern ?

>> This patch has been tested for both default arm and default gnu tls
>> schemes using the gcc and glibc testsuites for an arm-linux-gnueabi target.
>
> Presumably for v7-a and v5te and with this as default ? On hardware ?

Hm, I see our testing for fsf build uses qemu -- this patch has been tested on 
hardware in our releases.  Just not this exact version of the patch.

nathan

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