From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Thomas Petazzoni Date: Wed, 31 Aug 2016 09:11:52 +0200 Subject: [Buildroot] [PATCH/next v2 2/2] gcc: remove BR2_GCC_ENABLE_TLS option In-Reply-To: <53993701-c8a4-09d9-5d0f-6510a8f0812b@mind.be> References: <1472592808-18270-1-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <1472592808-18270-2-git-send-email-thomas.petazzoni@free-electrons.com> <53993701-c8a4-09d9-5d0f-6510a8f0812b@mind.be> Message-ID: <20160831091152.531b06f7@free-electrons.com> List-Id: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: buildroot@busybox.net Hello, On Wed, 31 Aug 2016 00:58:36 +0200, Arnout Vandecappelle wrote: > > +# TLS support is not needed on uClibc/no-thread and > > I thought it was not even available for nothread or linuxthreads? Well: TLS support is provided by the compiler and used by the C library. At least that's how I see it. Since here we are in gcc.mk, we are talking from the point of the view of the compiler, hence the "TLS support is not needed for variant". Thomas -- Thomas Petazzoni, CTO, Free Electrons Embedded Linux and Kernel engineering http://free-electrons.com