On 08/10/2010 10:23 AM, Michael Van Canneyt wrote:
This is an extension to C which is specific to GCC; it is in no way an
official spec except maybe for GCC (and probably linux-only, at that).
Microsoft for example doesn't use ELF; as I understand his remark, Jonas
wanted an official Microsoft spec.
Other than that, it's of course useful to know.
Finally I think that there is a decent chance to modify the compiler and
the RTL in a way that threadvars can be used fast and without needing a
libc binding, as well reading and writing them and constructing a
pointer to them (which seemed impossible to me recently):
Linux X86/64: using this document
Linux X86/32: using this document (*),
Windows X86/32: using the document mentioned in another contribution,
based on reverse-engineering of the Microsoft C compiler (*)
Linux ARM: tbd, but seemingly quite obvious
WinCE ARM. tbd, but I suppose this is not really "on the list".
(*) as both archs provide a TCB, the implementation can be done very
similar, first constructing the DS-relative pointer to a threadvar and
then doing the access:
Windows: the pointer to the threadvar is constructed by
MOV EAX, FS:Windows_TCB-element_offset
MOV EAX, threadvaroffset[EAX]
Linux: the pointer to the threadvar is constructed by
MOV EAX, GS:Linux_TCB-element_offset
MOV EAX, threadvaroffset[EAX]
-Michael
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