TLS redux

[Andreas Schwab]

Paul Pluzhnikov <ppluzhnikov@google.com> writes:

> One example that's burned into my memory is that memory allocated by
> ld.so's private malloc may later be free'd by public libc.so.6 free.

That should not happen, and would be a major bug.  You would get an
error when enabling malloc checking.

> They are the same implementation, so no harm done, right?

The ld.so malloc is a stub implementation that has nothing in common
with libc malloc.

Andreas.

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