On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 07:32:50AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > On Wed, Nov 28, 2018 at 11:37:42AM +1030, Alan Modra wrote: > > On Tue, Nov 27, 2018 at 10:29:29AM -0600, Segher Boessenkool wrote: > > > Do you think we should to deprecate -mtls-markers in GCC 9? > > > > Support for the TLS marker relocs was added to binutils in 2009 (git > > commit 727fc41e077), so yes, the option is not likely to be useful > > nowadays. > > Well, but do we gain anything if it is eventually deleted? Simpler code?
Not much. Unfortunately we still need to keep TARGET_TLS_MARKERS (or replace throughout with !HAVE_AS_TLS_MARKERS) for AIX. Deprecate AIX perhaps? :-) -- Alan Modra Australia Development Lab, IBM
