https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=68802
cbaylis at gcc dot gnu.org changed: What |Removed |Added ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Status|ASSIGNED |RESOLVED Resolution|--- |INVALID --- Comment #4 from cbaylis at gcc dot gnu.org --- I managed to look into this in more detail with a colleague. The segfault happens because the implementation of __tls_get_addr in glibc returns an invalid pointer. This seems to be a problem with static linking only, and dynamic linking will avoid the problem. A slightly simplified test case (without the exception handling) is: #include <cstdio> #include <thread> __thread int __attribute__ ((tls_model ("global-dynamic"))) x = 10; class Thread { public: void operator()(){ fprintf(stderr, "testing (%i) ...\n", x); } }; int main(void){ Thread t; std::thread th(std::ref(t)); th.join(); return 0; } If you install a copy of jessie filesystem somewhere on your build machine, you should be able to compile and link against the libraries on that version using --sysroot=/path/to/fs. This should allow you to create dynamically linked binaries which work on your target I've created a glibc bug for this https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19826. Since I don't think this is a bug in gcc, I'll close this bug.