i386 and x86_64 TLSDESC relocations to local symbols broken in gold

Alexandre Oliva aoliva@redhat.com
Sun Sep 21 08:35:00 GMT 2008


On Sep 16, 2008, Ian Lance Taylor <iant@google.com> wrote:

> 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.

*And* they're useless without further fixes yet to be made.

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