Date: Tue, 22 Dec 2009 15:18:11 +0100 From: Roman Divacky <rdivacky@FreeBSD.org> To: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> Cc: svn-src-head@FreeBSD.org, svn-src-all@FreeBSD.org, src-committers@FreeBSD.org, jhb@FreeBSD.org, marius@alchemy.franken.de Subject: Re: svn commit: r200797 - head/lib/libc/stdtime Message-ID: <20091222141810.GA17221@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <20091221.211648.632868945383134253.imp@bsdimp.com> References: <200912211943.nBLJhNUU038425@svn.freebsd.org> <200912211459.21766.jhb@freebsd.org> <20091221220004.GA42400@alchemy.franken.de> <20091221.211648.632868945383134253.imp@bsdimp.com>
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On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 09:16:48PM -0700, M. Warner Losh wrote: > In message: <20091221220004.GA42400@alchemy.franken.de> > Marius Strobl <marius@alchemy.franken.de> writes: > : On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 02:59:21PM -0500, John Baldwin wrote: > : > On Monday 21 December 2009 2:43:23 pm John Baldwin wrote: > : > > Author: jhb > : > > Date: Mon Dec 21 19:43:23 2009 > : > > New Revision: 200797 > : > > URL: http://svn.freebsd.org/changeset/base/200797 > : > > > : > > Log: > : > > Use _once() to initialize the pthread key for thread-local storage to hold > : > > the results of localtime() instead of using a pthread mutex directly. > : > > : > It would probably be simpler to use TLS for this instead, but I'm not sure if > : > we have working TLS on all supported platforms. > : > > : > : At least not on arm and sparc64 as the in-tree binutils predate > : GNU TLS support for these. > > We really need newer binutils in the tree. > > And we need a way to compiler gplv3 binutils into the system for folks > that can do that without consequences... But many modern processors > need to have the gplv3 version of binutils and that will be a > continuing problem. One advantage of FreeBSD is its integration, > rather than having to play version whack-a-mole like you do with > embedded Linux. well... llvm provides its own assembler so if the need for newer binutils comes from need of newer as I believe llvm can help here. or is the linker the problem?
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