Looks like threading is b0rken on FreeBSD/powerpc
Jason Evans
jasone at FreeBSD.org
Fri Aug 4 19:55:50 UTC 2006
Peter Grehan wrote:
>> But libpthread works in 6.0. What's the difference?
>
> jemalloc. From the backtrace, t's doing a TLS allocation, where I'm
> certain phkmalloc didn't do anything like that.
Indeed, jemalloc does add a dependency on TLS for PIC versions, though
it can be configured to run (more slowly) without TLS, as Marcel pointed
out. This appears to be a bug in the TLS implementation, rather than in
jemalloc; the appropriate fix is to make TLS work.
Jason
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