On 15/04/2017 23:27, Daniel Santos wrote:
Recent versions of gcc are optimizing away the TLS buffer allocated in
main, so we need to tell gcc that it's really used.
---
winsup/utils/strace.cc | 2 ++
1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
diff --git a/winsup/utils/strace.cc b/winsup/utils/strace.cc
index beab67b90..1e581b4a4 100644
--- a/winsup/utils/strace.cc
+++ b/winsup/utils/strace.cc
@@ -1192,6 +1192,8 @@ main (int argc, char **argv)
char buf[CYGTLS_PADSIZE];
memset (buf, 0, sizeof (buf));
+ /* Prevent buf from being optimized away. */
+ __asm__ __volatile__("" :: "m" (buf));
wouldn't adding volatile to the definition of buf be a better way to
write this?
exit (main2 (argc, argv));
}