From: Tom Tromey <tom@tromey.com>
To: Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de>
Cc: gdb-patches@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Implement native TLS support on Windows
Date: Fri, 08 May 2026 13:09:07 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <87tsshn2gc.fsf@tromey.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20260508144232.940078-1-ssbssa@yahoo.de> (Hannes Domani's message of "Fri, 8 May 2026 16:42:28 +0200")
>>>>> "Hannes" == Hannes Domani <ssbssa@yahoo.de> writes:
Hannes> I've used the fetch_tls_load_module_address gdbarch method to get the
Hannes> address of _tls_index of the OBJFILE, which is then forwarded as LM_ADDR
Hannes> to windows_get_thread_local_address, but I'm not really sure if this is
Hannes> allowed.
I think it is fine, or at most would need a small update to the comment
string explaining that the values are opaque and intended to be
target-specific.
Hannes> +/* Get the address of variable "_tls_index" of OBJFILE. */
Hannes> +
Hannes> +static CORE_ADDR
Hannes> +windows_tls_index_address (struct objfile *objfile)
Hannes> +{
Hannes> + bound_minimal_symbol minsym
Hannes> + = lookup_minimal_symbol_linkage("_tls_index", objfile, false);
Missing space.
Hannes> + gdb_byte buf[8];
Hannes> + if (target_read_memory (lm_addr, buf, 4))
Hannes> + throw_error (TLS_GENERIC_ERROR, _("Cannot read _tls_index"));
Hannes> +
Hannes> + enum bfd_endian byte_order = gdbarch_byte_order (gdbarch);
Hannes> + uint32_t tls_index = extract_unsigned_integer (buf, 4, byte_order);
Hannes> + CORE_ADDR tlb, tls_ptr, slot_ptr;
Hannes> + if (target_get_tib_address (ptid, &tlb)
Hannes> + && !target_read_memory (tlb + tls_offset, buf, ptr_bytes)
Hannes> + && (tls_ptr = extract_unsigned_integer (buf, ptr_bytes,
Hannes> + byte_order)) != 0
Hannes> + && !target_read_memory (tls_ptr + tls_index * ptr_bytes,
Hannes> + buf, ptr_bytes)
Hannes> + && (slot_ptr = extract_unsigned_integer (buf, ptr_bytes,
Hannes> + byte_order)) != 0)
Instead of multiple assignments in an 'if' I think it'd be better to
have separate 'if's and early returns.
Tom
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2026-05-08 14:42 ` Hannes Domani
2026-05-08 14:56 ` Eli Zaretskii
2026-05-08 19:09 ` Tom Tromey [this message]
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