[PATCH][binutils][2_42 1/2] x86: Improve TLS transition error check

[H.J. Lu]

On Wed, May 21, 2025 at 10:07 PM Sam James <sam@gentoo.org> wrote:
>
> Harish.Sadineni@windriver.com writes:
>
> > From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> >
> > Provide detailed TLS transition errors when unsupported instructions are
> > used.  Treat R_X86_64_CODE_4_GOTTPOFF and R_X86_64_CODE_6_GOTTPOFF as
> > R_X86_64_GOTTPOFF when performing TLS transition.
>
> Backports should IMHO always be "continuous", i.e. a commit backported
> to 2.42 must be backported to 2.43 (first). This doesn't seem to be on
> the 2.43 branch.

Agreed.  All 2.42 backports should be also on 2.43 branch.

> (This is not a comment on whether we want to backport this at all.)



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H.J.