Re: [RFC PATCH htl v2 0/4] Rewrite THREAD_GSCOPE

[Florian Weimer]

* Sergey Bugaev:

> I can think of two ways this can be handled:
>
> * Code can be rewritten and reorganized to use port-specific files instead of
>   conditional compilation. From looking at how glibc source is organized, this
>   appears to be the generally preferred way. I'm sending one more patch that
>   makes a (perhaps misguided) attempt to do this; but I'm not sure what would
>   be good way to handle the definitions in <ldsodefs.h> -- please take a look.

Yes, that's usually how things are done.

> * A more conservative approach would be to leave the code using
>   THREAD_GSCOPE_IN_TCB as is for now, but change the variable's name to
>   better reflect what it's used for. I haven't really been able to come
>   up with a good name, though.

You could kick the can down the road by switching to PTHREAD_IN_LIBC.
In some cases, that might actually be correct replacement.

Thanks,
Florian