Thanks for this and sorry about the length of time in reviewing this .
On 10/05/11 07:49, Nathan Sidwell wrote:
This patch implements TLS descriptor support in GCC. TLS descriptors are described at http://www.codesourcery.com/publications/RFC-TLSDESC-ARM.txt and blessed by ARM, who have reserved the relocation numbers. Binutils and GLIBC patches are already committed (there is an orthogonal glibc patch to do with make dependencies that I need to post though). This patch adds a --with-tls={arm|gnu} configuration option, to specify the default scheme. It can be overridden with a -mtls-dialect={arm|gnu} option (this is the name used by the x86 backend, which also has tlsdescriptor support). I have not added --with-tls support to the x86 bits of config.gcc etc, but it would be simple to do so.
Could you consider adding a check in the configury to test if a binutils version of recent vintage is being used when --with-tls=gnu is in ?
Could you also use R0_REGNUM, R1_REGNUM instead of 0 and 1 in the "tlscall" pattern ?
This patch has been tested for both default arm and default gnu tls schemes using the gcc and glibc testsuites for an arm-linux-gnueabi target.
Presumably for v7-a and v5te and with this as default ? On hardware ? cheers Ramana
