[PATCH] PR 68192 Export AIX TLS symbols

[David Edelsohn]

On Thu, Nov 5, 2015 at 8:34 AM, Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org> wrote:
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> On 05/11/2015 17:28, David Edelsohn wrote:
>> [Explicitly copying build maintainers.]
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>> Paolo and Alexandre,
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>> Could you review and help with this patch?
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>> TLS symbols in AIX display a new, different symbol type in nm output.
>> Libtool explicitly creates a list of exported symbols for shared
>> libraries using nm and does not recognize the new TLS symbols, so
>> those symbols are not exported.
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>> This is a regression for TLS support on AIX.
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>> This patch updates libtool.m4 in GCC and configure for libstdc++-v3,
>> libgfortran, and libgomp.  I would like to apply the patch to GCC
>> while I simultaneously work with the Libtool community to correct the
>> bug upstream.  I also would like to backport this to GCC 5.2 and GCC
>> 4.9.x.
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> I think it's okay to wait for the patch to be upstream.
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> I can help committing the patch once it is.

Paolo,

The patch MUST go into GCC 5.3 release, which Richi has announced that
he wants to release around the beginning of Stage 3.  The patch should
not go into GCC 5 branch without going into trunk.  This patch cannot
wait unless you want to block GCC 5.3.

Thanks, David