* Nikos Dragazis: > For example, let's say we have an ELF executable that defines and > accesses a TLS variable. From gcc's man page, I read that, in this case, > gcc will use the initial-exec TLS model by default. My question is if we > can change that and, say, use the global-dynamic model. To this end, I > have tried the `-ftls-model=global-dynamic` option and the `tls_model` > gcc variable attribute. None of these worked. Try -ftls-model=global-dynamic -fpic. This will prevent GCC from performing relaxation. For many targets, the link editor still performs relaxation. To turn this off, you will have to link the executable with -shared, I think, with some hackery to produce an executable that can actually be run. Thanks, Florian
