Re: 4.7.2 TLS on AIX 6.1 (ppc) ?

2013-03-12 Thread David Edelsohn
On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 3:06 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > But why didn't the compiler complain that TLS was not supported ? > Shouldn't it be doing so ? It is definitely not OK in my book for gcc > to finish compilation and linkage with no errors or warnings, when > it has encountered a __thread

Re: 4.7.2 TLS on AIX 6.1 (ppc) ?

2013-03-12 Thread Jason Vas Dias
Thanks for your informative response, David! This is what I really wanted to know: > All previous and current releases of GCC do not support > native TLS on AIX. GCC 4.8 will provide TLS on AIX, as listed in the > announcements for the release. Great! I'll look forward to testing with 4.8 when it

Re: 4.7.2 TLS on AIX 6.1 (ppc) ?

2013-03-11 Thread David Edelsohn
On Mon, Mar 11, 2013 at 3:46 PM, Jason Vas Dias wrote: > Hi - I wonder if anyone could please tell me if gcc's thread local > storage support is meant to be enabled on AIX or not - > I've built gcc-4.7.2 on AIX 6.1 OK, with "---enable-threads" , > using the AIX system /usr/ccs/bin ld and as , b

4.7.2 TLS on AIX 6.1 (ppc) ?

2013-03-11 Thread Jason Vas Dias
Hi - I wonder if anyone could please tell me if gcc's thread local storage support is meant to be enabled on AIX or not - I've built gcc-4.7.2 on AIX 6.1 OK, with "---enable-threads" , using the AIX system /usr/ccs/bin ld and as , both of which claim to provide TLS support , but now this test pr