Re: nptl 0.28

[Daniel Jacobowitz <drow false org>]

On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 03:07:15PM +0100, bert hubert wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 03, 2003 at 07:43:27PM -0800, Ulrich Drepper wrote:
> 
> > This release fixes a few bugs (little sem_open bug, possible memory
> > corruption if the first thread calls pthread_exit), support for current
> > 2.5 kernels in the test suite, several optimizations, update of the "C
> > port".
> 
> Which CVS glibc timestamp is this against?
> 
> > All the problems have been found through the test suite so, unless
> > nobody at all uses the code, it seems to be very stable for normal use.
> >  I haven't seen many reports on people's experiences so far, though.
> > Please let me know how things work for you.
> 
> I'm again attempting to get everything bootstrapped. By the way, I tried
> the __thread attribute and as soon as I try to touch a variable marked that
> way, I get a SIGSEGV. Is there a __thread 'hello world' example somewhere?
> 
> I tried this on a non-NPTL system by the way, with gcc 3.3 HEAD.

That's why.  You have to have a --with-tls (and --with-__thread?)
version of glibc.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer