cannot allocate memory in static TLS block

Jakub Jelinek jakub@redhat.com
Fri Sep 5 08:16:00 GMT 2003


On Fri, Sep 05, 2003 at 08:02:24AM +0200, Thorsten Kukuk wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> compiling the appended test case on i686, gives me the following
> error messages in some configurations:
> 
> # ./dlopen-tls 
> dlopen() failed: './tls.so: cannot allocate memory in static TLS block'
> 
> It does not work with glibc compiled for i686 with TLS and
> without NPTL (the fallback, if somebody uses an older kernel or
> LD_ASSUME_KERNEL=2.4.1).
> 
> Is this a binutils/gcc problem or a bug in glibc? It seems to work
> on other architectures with the same tool chain (gcc 3.3.1, 
> binutils-2.14.90.0.5).

It works for me with all 3 libc/libpthread combos we have on i686
(linuxthreads non-FLOATING_STACKS TLS, non-__thread,
linuxthreads FLOATING_STACKS TLS, non-__thread,
NPTL (obviously TLS __thread), aka LD_ASSUME_KERNEL={2.2.5,2.4.1,2.4.20}),
about a day old CVS checkout.

	Jakub



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