On Thu, May 7, 2015 at 5:13 AM, Sverd Johnsen <sverd.johnsen@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The gcc docs say -mtls-dialect=gnu2 is more efficient than > -mtls-dialect=gnu. Is there more information about this somewhere and > why isnt it enabled by default? Here is the basic doc: http://people.redhat.com/aoliva/writeups/TLS/RFC-TLSDESC-x86.txt . I do not know why it has never been enabled by default. As far as I know, it works. Alexandre may know. Ian