[Mono-devel-list] tls_model ("local-exec")

[Paolo Molaro]

On 05/23/04 Ben Maurer wrote:
>  #ifdef HAVE_KW_THREAD
> -static __thread gpointer mono_lmf_addr;
> +static __thread __attribute__ ((tls_model ("local-exec"))) gpointer mono_lmf_addr;
>  #endif
>   
>  static gpointer
> 
> It seems taht __thread is using some other storage model by default on
> my box. I am running rh9. Should this patch be applied, or is something
> else going on?

local-exec is only valid for executables, so your change looks incorrect.
There is an item in my todo list for a long time: change the build so
that mono is built as a binary with a static libmono built in: this way
we (and gcc) can use more optimizations like the above.

lupus

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