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From: Jan Kiszka <jan.kiszka@domain.hid>
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Subject: Re: [Xenomai-core] [PATCH] Mark libs with nodlopen when
 using	initial-exec TLS
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To: Gilles Chanteperdrix <gilles.chanteperdrix@xenomai.org>
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Gilles Chanteperdrix wrote:
> Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> Some naive optimist once claim that the dynamic linker would detect if
>> we try to dlopen some Xenomai lib (directly or indirectly) which uses
>> the optimised initial-exec TLS variables. He was wrong of course. It
>> takes the special marker nodlopen to achieve this, and that's what the
>> patch below does when and where required.
> 
> Ok. But I think we should document somewhere the fact that dlopening
> Xenomai libs will not work because of __thread.

There will be a follow-up on this soon, because dlopen causes more
problems, namely to the POSIX skin.

Jan

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