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On 2025-02-11 13:58, Dimitry Andric wrote:
>> On 11 Feb 2025, at 21:45, Brian Inglis via Cygwin wrote:
>> On 2025-02-11 12:41, Dimitry Andric via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> On 11 Feb 2025, at 20:26, Ken Brown via Cygwin wrote:
>>>> Does Cygwin support __builtin_thread_pointer?  I'm guessing not, because
>>>> I'm getting a link error (undefined reference to
>>>> `__builtin_thread_pointer') when I try to build some software that uses
>>>> it.  Or is there something that would have to be added to the link command
>>>> line?  The full command line and error message are quoted below, in case
>>>> anyone spots something obvious.
>>
>>> It's a gcc builtin function, not something implemented in an external library. Therefore, there is no linker option that can fix this.
>>> Also, as far as I can see from gcc's documentation,
>>> __builtin_thread_pointer() is only supported for the RISCV and SH
>>> architectures. Then again, gcc's implementation seems to hinge this on
>>> whether the platform supports TLS or not.
>>> In any case, it is probably better to not use this function if your gcc does
>>> not support it.
>> Does `info gcc tls` help and do we know if that is supported by our gcc(s)?

 > It does not look like it's supported by Cygwin's gcc:
 > $ gcc -v
 > Using built-in specs.
 > COLLECT_GCC=gcc
 > COLLECT_LTO_WRAPPER=/usr/lib/gcc/x86_64-pc-cygwin/12/lto-wrapper.exe
 > Target: x86_64-pc-cygwin
 > Configured with: /mnt/share/cygpkgs/gcc/gcc.x86_64/src/gcc-12.4.0/configure 
--srcdir=/mnt/share/cygpkgs/gcc/gcc.x86_64/src/gcc-12.4.0 --prefix=/usr 
--exec-prefix=/usr --localstatedir=/var --sysconfdir=/etc 
--docdir=/usr/share/doc/gcc --htmldir=/usr/share/doc/gcc/html -C 
--build=x86_64-pc-cygwin --host=x86_64-pc-cygwin --target=x86_64-pc-cygwin 
--without-libiconv-prefix --without-libintl-prefix --libexecdir=/usr/lib 
--with-gcc-major-version-only --enable-shared --enable-shared-libgcc 
--enable-static --enable-version-specific-runtime-libs --enable-bootstrap 
--enable-__cxa_atexit --enable-clocale=newlib --with-dwarf2 --with-tune=generic 
--enable-languages=ada,c,c++,fortran,lto,objc,obj-c++,jit --enable-graphite 
--enable-threads=posix --enable-libatomic --enable-libgomp --enable-libquadmath 
--enable-libquadmath-support --disable-libssp --enable-libada --disable-symvers 
--disable-multilib --with-gnu-ld --with-gnu-as 
--with-cloog-include=/usr/include/cloog-isl --without-libiconv-prefix 
--without-libintl-prefix --with-system-zlib --enable-linker-build-id 
--with-default-libstdcxx-abi=gcc4-compatible --enable-libstdcxx-filesystem-ts
 > Thread model: posix
 > Supported LTO compression algorithms: zlib zstd
 > gcc version 12.4.0 (GCC)

 > On Ubuntu 24.04 this program compiles without warnings.

On which platform - RISCV or SH?

 > It looks like the gcc configure script checks for TLS here: 
https://gcc.gnu.org/git/?p=gcc.git;a=blob;f=gcc/configure.ac;h=8fab93c9365496062583c5bd8ace402c8a797817;hb=HEAD#l3846, 
by running some code through the assembler. I would guess that doesn't work on 
Cygwin.

It should as gas supports storage class 'T' for thread, and GCC supports and 
uses posix threads.

This compiles just fine under Cygwin:

/* test-thread-storage.c */
int f(int *np, char *cp)
{
   static __thread int  n;
   static __thread char *p;
   int i;

   n = *np;
   p = cp;

   for (i = 0; i < n; ++i)
       *cp++ = *p++;

   return i;
}

Cygwin and GCC support POSIX threads, and they are used in many Cygwin packages, 
this may just work!

Cygwin could define its own builtin_thread_pointer() to access its own cygtls 
areas from GCC, and if they are defined using storage class 'T', it should work.
It is not clear if this is just intended as an optimization for a few embedded 
targets that have a dedicated pointer register for tls.

-- 
Take care. Thanks, Brian Inglis              Calgary, Alberta, Canada

La perfection est atteinte                   Perfection is achieved
non pas lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à ajouter  not when there is no more to add
mais lorsqu'il n'y a plus rien à retrancher  but when there is no more to cut
                                 -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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