David Edelsohn writes:
> On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:44 AM Richard Sandiford
> wrote:
>> Well, this is all about what (symbol_ref NAME) means for a TLS symbol
>> (with NAME always assumed to be TLS below). For all GCC ports it means
>> the actual address of NAME for the current thread. AIUI that
On Sun, Mar 29, 2020 at 6:44 AM Richard Sandiford
wrote:
>
> David Edelsohn writes:
> > On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 6:42 AM Richard Sandiford
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> David Edelsohn via Gcc-patches writes:
> >> > This patch is for an AIX problem, but the only robust solution is in
> >> > common code: c
David Edelsohn writes:
> On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 6:42 AM Richard Sandiford
> wrote:
>>
>> David Edelsohn via Gcc-patches writes:
>> > This patch is for an AIX problem, but the only robust solution is in
>> > common code: calls.c:precompute_register_parameters().
>> >
>> > AIX, like other platfor
On Sat, Mar 28, 2020 at 6:42 AM Richard Sandiford
wrote:
>
> David Edelsohn via Gcc-patches writes:
> > This patch is for an AIX problem, but the only robust solution is in
> > common code: calls.c:precompute_register_parameters().
> >
> > AIX, like other platforms, needs to call a function to ob
David Edelsohn via Gcc-patches writes:
> This patch is for an AIX problem, but the only robust solution is in
> common code: calls.c:precompute_register_parameters().
>
> AIX, like other platforms, needs to call a function to obtain the
> pointer to thread-local storage. If the thread local varia
> I'm forced to fall back to a targeted patch in
> calls.c:precompute_register_parameters() that tests exactly for TLS
> symbols on AIX instead of using the legitimate_constant_p hook to test
> for TLS symbols.
>
> I could create a new target hook for this specific use in calls.c and
> define it a
This patch is for an AIX problem, but the only robust solution is in
common code: calls.c:precompute_register_parameters().
AIX, like other platforms, needs to call a function to obtain the
pointer to thread-local storage. If the thread local variable is
referenced as a parameter to a function ca
