Re: Libc patch no longer applies

[Samuel Thibault]

Thomas Schwinge, le Tue 11 Oct 2011 11:41:59 +0200, a écrit :
> > More than that: libthreads used to set up the thread-specific area, and
> > some places are hardcoded. We need to check that this still works.
> 
> Hmm, what exactly do you mean?  After some patching/hacking, I have now
> forwarded to glibc upstream master (yay!), and the make check situation
> basically is as before (yay!), including the TLS tests for which (only)
> two of them fail (as in Debian).

I mean the threadvar stuff, rgrep -i threadvar in libpthread.

> > This
> > is in my TODO list since years, so now we have to make it more urging.
> 
> Is this a material TODO file (and should it be in the wiki then?), or a
> spiritual one (in your head)?

It's my monster TODO list on my laptop. It's also part of an old Roland
mail about how to deal with TLS. It's also part of the comments in the
patch in the debian package.

Samuel