[LLVMdev] Adding support for explicitly specified TLS models (PR9788)

[Hans Wennborg]

On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 14:04, Joerg Sonnenberger
<joerg at britannica.bec.de> wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 25, 2012 at 12:39:49PM +0100, Hans Wennborg wrote:
>> Just as it is illegal to specify thread_local for a target that
>> doesn't support it, specifying a TLS model that isn't supported by the
>> target would be illegal.
>
> For ELF, it doesn't make sense to reject one as it can always be
> relaxed. An application program shouldn't have to worry about that, it
> is just an implementation detail.

I'd be fine with that.

(Clang should still worry about it though, so it can provide a "the
TLS model you selected is not supported by the target, it will fall
back to another one" warning.)

 - Hans