i386 and x86_64 TLSDESC relocations to local symbols broken in gold

Ian Lance Taylor iant@google.com
Tue Sep 16 13:48:00 GMT 2008


Matthias Klose <doko@ubuntu.com> writes:

> Alexandre Oliva schrieb:
>> On Sep 13, 2008, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:
>> 
>>> If you can correct the comment in front of the function, that would be
>>> nice.
>> 
>> Oh, doh, I checked the patch in after making all the other fixes, then
>> realized I'd failed to make this one.  Sorry.
>> 
>> I'm going ahead and checking in this one too.
>
> are these changes appropriate for the 2.19 branch as well?

They are bug fixes, so in that sense they are appropriate.  However,
it's not a widely used case--it requires a special option when
compiling--and moreover this case requires support in libc which is
not yet widely distributed.

Ian



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