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authorPaolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2010-06-10 16:01:32 +0000
committerPaolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>2010-06-10 16:01:32 +0000
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sync changelog with gcc, plus commit the following patch:
2010-06-09 Iain Sandoe <iains@gcc.gnu.org> PR bootstrap/43170 * tls.m4 (GCC_CHECK_TLS): Add volatile qualifier to the test references. Move the main () test reference ahead of pthread_create(). Add a comment to explain the requirements of the test.
Diffstat (limited to 'config/tls.m4')
-rw-r--r--config/tls.m411
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/config/tls.m4 b/config/tls.m4
index ef7e6d0..4e170c8 100644
--- a/config/tls.m4
+++ b/config/tls.m4
@@ -38,11 +38,16 @@ AC_DEFUN([GCC_CHECK_TLS], [
CFLAGS="$chktls_save_CFLAGS"
if test "X$thread_CFLAGS" != Xfailed; then
CFLAGS="$thread_CFLAGS $chktls_save_CFLAGS"
+ dnl Test for an old glibc bug that violated the __thread property.
+ dnl Use volatile to ensure the compiler won't optimize away pointer
+ dnl accesses it might otherwise assume to be redundant, or reorder
+ dnl them and reuse storage, which might lead to them pointing to
+ dnl the same location.
AC_RUN_IFELSE(
[AC_LANG_PROGRAM(
[#include <pthread.h>
__thread int a;
- static int *a_in_other_thread;
+ static int *volatile a_in_other_thread;
static void *
thread_func (void *arg)
{
@@ -51,11 +56,11 @@ AC_DEFUN([GCC_CHECK_TLS], [
}],
[pthread_t thread;
void *thread_retval;
- int *a_in_main_thread;
+ int *volatile a_in_main_thread;
+ a_in_main_thread = &a;
if (pthread_create (&thread, (pthread_attr_t *)0,
thread_func, (void *)0))
return 0;
- a_in_main_thread = &a;
if (pthread_join (thread, &thread_retval))
return 0;
return (a_in_other_thread == a_in_main_thread);])],