[PATCH 4/5] bsps: Thread-local storage (TLS) for linkcmds

[Joel Sherrill]

On 1/30/2014 3:55 PM, Chris Johns wrote:
> On 30/01/2014 6:33 pm, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>> On 2014-01-29 22:18, Chris Johns wrote:
>>> On 30/01/2014 1:24 am, Sebastian Huber wrote:
>>>> On 2014-01-29 15:11, Gedare Bloom wrote:
>>>>> This one should be verified (compile) for all BSPs..
>>>> The BSPs compile and link (except the V850, here I get a linker error
>>>> about incompatible multilibs).
>>>>
>>>> The new tests sptls01 and sptls02 don't work on some targets due to
>>>> incomplete tool chains and/or a missing TLS implementation.
>>>>
>>> Sure the BSPs compile but do all BSPs compile ?
>> The sample programs of all BSPs link.  If you don't use TLS in your
>> application, then everything works as usual.
>>
>> The sptls01 and sptls02 tests don't work on unsupported architectures to
>> highlight the problem.
>>
>>> What is the use case for this with RTEMS ?
>> The use case is to use current C and C++ standards.
>>
> Great.
>
>>> Is there any user documentation about the supported architectures and
>>> its use
>>> in RTEMS ?
>> Its not used inside of RTEMS.  It enables a C/C++ language feature.
>>
>>> My concern is having a feature like this but not every architecture or
>>> BSP
>>> supporting it therefore creating non-portable RTEMS applications.
>> I have no budget to enable this for every BSP and architecture.  The
>> basic problem is that some architectures lack a maintainer and/or active
>> users.
> We need to document what is supported and what is not supported and if 
> possible why.
I think the issue is GCC. There was a discussion on their list this week
about this.
>>> How do we
>>> police this not being used in RTEMS and only tested on supported BSPs
>>> ? For
>>> example using TLS to fix the shell's environment task variables for
>>> use with SMP.
>> I do not intend to use TLS inside of RTEMS.
>>
> I would like this established as a rule for the project.
That's a good idea.

FYI we need to find a way to enforce the standards we have and increase
the checks. Chromium uses clang/llvm for some of this but I don't know
the details.
> Chris
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