LDT use in LinuxThreads

[Andreas Jaeger]

>>>>> Ulrich Drepper writes:

Uli> I've enabled the use of the LDT-based thread descriptor for Liunx on
Uli> i686 by default now.  It works for me now and I've worked around the
Uli> problem in libgcc (they are using thread functions far too early) by
Uli> some special hack.

Uli> If it does not work for you please let me know about the kernel
Uli> version you are using.  In this case you can safely compile glibc for
Uli> everything below i686 since it won't use the new code.

Hi Uli,

it doesn't work for me with 2.3.48.  What shall we do?  Are you adding
a run time test to disable LDT for older kernels?

Andreas
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