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From: Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>
To: Jan Kratochvil <jan.kratochvil@redhat.com>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [libc patch] __tls_get_addr with link_map * instead of modid
Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2014 21:44:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141018214424.GI32028@brightrain.aerifal.cx> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141018212727.GA27805@host2.jankratochvil.net>

On Sat, Oct 18, 2014 at 11:27:27PM +0200, Jan Kratochvil wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Oct 2014 23:20:48 +0200, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Additionally one could also fetch the module id from R_X86_64_DTPMOD64 but that
> > > would require arch specific code in GDB.  I do not plan to implement this way.
> > 
> > I don't see how this would work; how would you request the dynamic
> > linker to resolve that for you?
> 
> When the inferior is running the relocation is already resolved.  So GDB can

This is only the case if the module actually has a relocation for
local TLS contained in it. I'm not sure how you could assume this is
always the case, but maybe in cases where it's not true there's no
reasonable way you'd want to access TLS in that way.

Rich


  reply	other threads:[~2014-10-18 21:44 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-10-18 20:15 Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-18 21:20 ` Rich Felker
2014-10-18 21:27   ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-18 21:44     ` Rich Felker [this message]
2014-10-23 10:03 ` Alexandre Oliva
2014-10-23 12:52   ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-24  1:47 ` Mike Frysinger
2014-10-24  2:21 ` Carlos O'Donell
     [not found]   ` <20141024093834.GA24090@host2.jankratochvil.net>
2014-10-24 14:22     ` Carlos O'Donell
2014-10-24 14:40       ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-24 15:00         ` Carlos O'Donell
2014-10-25  5:55         ` Rich Felker
2014-10-25  6:14           ` Jan Kratochvil
2014-10-25  6:26             ` Rich Felker
2014-10-24 15:56       ` Pedro Alves

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