From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: ludo@gnu.org (Ludovic =?iso-8859-1?Q?Court=E8s?=) Newsgroups: gmane.lisp.guile.devel Subject: Re: TLS support on NetBSD Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:24:22 +0100 Message-ID: <871vklon3d.fsf@gnu.org> References: <878wf2tsl7.fsf@gnu.org> NNTP-Posting-Host: lo.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1256855406 18583 80.91.229.12 (29 Oct 2009 22:30:06 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Thu, 29 Oct 2009 22:30:06 +0000 (UTC) To: guile-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Thu Oct 29 23:29:59 2009 Return-path: Envelope-to: guile-devel@m.gmane.org Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by lo.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.50) id 1N3dSi-00025x-VV for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:21 +0100 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1]:48293 helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3dSi-0000mC-ET for guile-devel@m.gmane.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:20 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3dSf-0000m4-N6 for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1N3dSb-0000kM-8p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:17 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (port=56245 helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1N3dSb-0000kF-6J for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from lo.gmane.org ([80.91.229.12]:34716) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtps (TLS-1.0:RSA_AES_256_CBC_SHA1:32) (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1N3dSa-0007fu-QB for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 18:27:13 -0400 Original-Received: from list by lo.gmane.org with local (Exim 4.50) id 1N3dSO-0001qg-6p for guile-devel@gnu.org; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from reverse-83.fdn.fr ([80.67.176.83]) by main.gmane.org with esmtp (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0100 Original-Received: from ludo by reverse-83.fdn.fr with local (Gmexim 0.1 (Debian)) id 1AlnuQ-0007hv-00 for ; Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:27:00 +0100 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ Original-Lines: 29 Original-X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: reverse-83.fdn.fr X-URL: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ X-Revolutionary-Date: 8 Brumaire an 218 de la =?iso-8859-1?Q?R=E9volution?= X-PGP-Key-ID: 0xEA52ECF4 X-PGP-Key: http://www.fdn.fr/~lcourtes/ludovic.asc X-PGP-Fingerprint: 821D 815D 902A 7EAB 5CEE D120 7FBA 3D4F EB1F 5364 X-OS: x86_64-unknown-linux-gnu User-Agent: Gnus/5.13 (Gnus v5.13) Emacs/23.1 (gnu/linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:62SB8TdWR8GDLs2YC0h/0EAu1+U= X-detected-operating-system: by monty-python.gnu.org: GNU/Linux 2.6 (newer, 3) X-BeenThere: guile-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Developers list for Guile, the GNU extensibility library" List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: guile-devel-bounces+guile-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.lisp.guile.devel:9608 Archived-At: Hey, Ken Raeburn writes: > I just took a little bit of a look... on my NetBSD 5.0.1 x86 system, > the __thread support simply uses the %gs segment register, That’s weird because it should only do such things with the ‘initial-exec’ or ‘local-exec’ thread models; otherwise, it relies on support from the C library at run-time, something called ‘__tls_get addr ()’ in glibc. > but the kernel or library or whatever doesn't seem to have set it up > properly. So it compiles and links just fine for me, but crashes when > running. Hmm, not good. > I think the autoconf test is thus going to have to run a test program > to see if __thread is supported, which means it won't be friendly to > cross-compilation setups. (I still don't have all the dependencies > built for NetBSD, so no working patch.) Or, we could hard-code > knowledge about systems where compiling and linking work but execution > fails; that's generally frowned upon.... Yeah, that doesn’t sound very good. Thanks, Ludo’.