Re: segfault on x86_64 using musl libc

  • From: Florian Weimer <fw@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
  • To: luajit@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2012 22:14:38 +0200

* Mike Pall:

> John Spencer wrote:
>> Rich came up with a clever portable (POSIX) way that could be used instead
>> of the existing non-threadsafe fallback code for OSX/OpenBSD/non-TLS.
>
> There's no way I can drag a dependency on pthreads into the LuaJIT
> core, because it's meant to be embedded. Pthreads needs to be loaded
> early on (or bad things will happen), so the executable must be
> linked with it. But that would kill the ability to use the LuaJIT
> shared library as a drop-in replacement for Lua.

Yet another reason for __thread. 8-)

You could use a weak reference to pthread_getspecific &c and fall back
to a global variable if the symbols aren't available.

But perhaps on musl provides these functions as part of libc?  Then
you could safely link against these symbols for musl platforms.

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