Solaris/x86 port - how to get the TLS section?

[Joakim via digitalmars-d-ldc]

On Tuesday, 25 November 2014 at 17:59:48 UTC, Kai Nacke wrote:
> Hi!
>
> GitHub master contains a close-to-working port of LDC to 
> Solaris/x86. The only missing piece is getting a pointer to the 
> TLS section. I tried the following:
>
> 1) Solaris uses the ELF file format. Unfortunately, it does not 
> support the dl_phdr_info.dlpi_tls_modid field which is used on 
> FreeBSD to get the module id of the TLS section.
>
> 2) On glibc-based systems, the function dlinfo(RTLD_SELF, 
> RTLD_DI_TLS_MODID, &modid) can be used to get the module id. 
> Again, this is not supported on Solaris.
>
> Does somebody else know a way to get a pointer to or the module 
> id of the TLS section? Maybe a linkmap or a /proc/<pid>/map 
> based solution? Every suggestion is welcome!
>
> Regards,
> Kai

Take a look at Drepper's TLS reference, if you haven't already:

http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf

He talks a lot about how Solaris is different in there.