[LLVMdev] TLS with MCJIT (an experimental patch)

[David Chisnall]

On 15 May 2013, at 01:17, "Kaylor, Andrew" <andrew.kaylor at intel.com> wrote:

> I believe that assertion indicates that something didn't get loaded into the lower 2GB of address space.  That is, the memory manager isn't allocating memory in that range.
> 
> I'm sure there must be a way to allocate memory in that range on FreeBSD.  The system loader has to do it, right?  I just don't know what makes it happen.

I've asked around, and we don't seem to have anything that can do it.  Checking the code for rtld, it explicitly asks for memory at a specific address and keeps track of the regions it has used.  

David