TLS limitations

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Wed Feb 13 15:13:00 GMT 2002


Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> Well, a dlopen/dlclose in a cycle could trigger it in a day or so
> on current systems, but that's certainly not a reasonable program.

Everything breaks if you are out to do it.  This is in any case one of
the issues where I intend to wait and see.  Adding the overflow
detection Roland suggested certainly is OK and when somebody really
complains and a simple "get a real (= 64-bit) machine" doesn't help
we'll see what is reasonable to do.

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