Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH 1/8] tls: require compiler support for __thread

[Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>]

On 28/04/2015 23:04, Emilio G. Cota wrote:
> 
> commit ad45e590025c1197a7aef5164e1ae174894b0969
> Author: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
> Date:   Tue Apr 28 16:54:44 2015 -0400
> 
>     configure: require __thread support
>     
>     The codebase doesn't build without __thread support.
>     Formalise this requirement by adding a check for it in the
>     configure script.
>     
>     Signed-off-by: Emilio G. Cota <cota@braap.org>
> 
> diff --git a/configure b/configure
> index 6969f6f..3d6591f 100755
> --- a/configure
> +++ b/configure
> @@ -1549,6 +1549,17 @@ if test "$static" = "yes" ; then
>    fi
>  fi
>  
> +# Unconditional check for compiler __thread support
> +  cat > $TMPC << EOF
> +static __thread int tls_var;
> +int main(void) { return tls_var; }
> +EOF
> +
> +if ! compile_prog "-Werror" "" ; then
> +    error_exit "Your compiler does not support the __thread specifier for " \
> +	"Thread-Local Storage (TLS). Please upgrade to a version that does."
> +fi
> +
>  if test "$pie" = ""; then
>    case "$cpu-$targetos" in
>      i386-Linux|x86_64-Linux|x32-Linux|i386-OpenBSD|x86_64-OpenBSD)

Yes, thanks.  I'll include the patch in my next pull request.

Paolo