# # AX_CHECK_TLS -- check whether the target supports TLS (thread-local storage) # # Based on tls.m4 from gcc and extended by TLS link test for cross-compiling # support from http://old.nabble.com/Improve-TLS-link-test-for-cross-compiling-td24312975.html # # Note that AX_TLS from http://autoconf-archive.cryp.to/ax_tls.html supports # more keywords for TLS. We are happy with the "__thread" only. # # -- Karel Zak (04-Dec-2009) # dnl Check whether the target supports TLS. AC_DEFUN([AX_CHECK_TLS], [ AC_REQUIRE([AC_CANONICAL_HOST]) AC_ARG_ENABLE([tls], AS_HELP_STRING([--disable-tls], [disable use of thread local support]), [], enable_tls=yes) AC_CACHE_CHECK([whether the target supports thread-local storage], ax_cv_have_tls, [ AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([__thread int a; int b; int main() { return a = b; }])], [dnl If the test case passed with dynamic linking, try again with dnl static linking, but only if static linking is supported (not dnl on Solaris 10). This fails with some older Red Hat releases. chktls_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" LDFLAGS="-static $LDFLAGS" AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([int main() { return 0; }])], AC_RUN_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([__thread int a; int b; int main() { return a = b; }])], [ax_cv_have_tls=yes], [ax_cv_have_tls=no],[]), [ax_cv_have_tls=yes]) LDFLAGS="$chktls_save_LDFLAGS" if test $ax_cv_have_tls = yes; then dnl So far, the binutils and the compiler support TLS. dnl Also check whether the libc supports TLS, i.e. whether a variable dnl with __thread linkage has a different address in different threads. dnl First, find the thread_CFLAGS necessary for linking a program that dnl calls pthread_create. chktls_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" thread_CFLAGS=failed for flag in '' '-pthread' '-lpthread'; do CFLAGS="$flag $chktls_save_CFLAGS" AC_LINK_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [#include void *g(void *d) { return NULL; }], [pthread_t t; pthread_create(&t,NULL,g,NULL);])], [thread_CFLAGS="$flag"]) if test "X$thread_CFLAGS" != Xfailed; then break fi done CFLAGS="$chktls_save_CFLAGS" if test "X$thread_CFLAGS" != Xfailed; then CFLAGS="$thread_CFLAGS $chktls_save_CFLAGS" AC_RUN_IFELSE( [AC_LANG_PROGRAM( [#include __thread int a; static int *a_in_other_thread; static void * thread_func (void *arg) { a_in_other_thread = &a; return (void *)0; }], [pthread_t thread; void *thread_retval; int *a_in_main_thread; if (pthread_create (&thread, (pthread_attr_t *)0, thread_func, (void *)0)) return 0; a_in_main_thread = &a; if (pthread_join (thread, &thread_retval)) return 0; return (a_in_other_thread == a_in_main_thread);])], [ax_cv_have_tls=yes], [ax_cv_have_tls=no], []) CFLAGS="$chktls_save_CFLAGS" fi fi], [ax_cv_have_tls=no], [dnl This is the cross-compiling case. Assume libc supports TLS if the dnl binutils and the compiler do. AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([__thread int a; int b; int main() { return a = b; }])], [chktls_save_LDFLAGS="$LDFLAGS" dnl Shared library options may depend on the host; this check dnl is only known to be needed for GNU/Linux. case $host in *-*-linux*) LDFLAGS="-shared -Wl,--no-undefined $LDFLAGS" ;; esac chktls_save_CFLAGS="$CFLAGS" CFLAGS="-fPIC $CFLAGS" dnl If -shared works, test if TLS works in a shared library. AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([int f() { return 0; }])], [AC_LINK_IFELSE([AC_LANG_SOURCE([__thread int a; int b; int f() { return a = b; }])], [ax_cv_have_tls=yes], [ax_cv_have_tls=no])], [ax_cv_have_tls=yes]) CFLAGS="$chktls_save_CFLAGS" LDFLAGS="$chktls_save_LDFLAGS"], [ax_cv_have_tls=no]) ] )]) if test "$enable_tls $ax_cv_have_tls" = "yes yes"; then AC_DEFINE(HAVE_TLS, 1, [Define to 1 if the target supports thread-local storage.]) fi ])