preloader: Setup a fake thread-local storage block pointed to by %gs. breaks RH9

[Alexandre Julliard]

Robert Reif <reif at earthlink.net> writes:

> This last commit:
> http://www.winehq.org/pipermail/wine-cvs/2006-November/027508.html
> totally breaks wine on Red Hat 9.

How is it broken?

> Red Hat 9 has been partially broken since 2.4 kernel support has been
> dropped a while back but this patch makes it totally unusable.
>
> It is unfortunate that 2.4 kernel support has been removed from wine
> because in "The Real World" (large enterprise and dedicated or
> embedded systems) users don't have the option of upgrading the OS to
> the latest and greatest.  Some systems will never be upgraded once
> deployed.  Dropping 2.4 support is a regression.

2.4 support is not dropped at all, it still works fine. What doesn't
work is using a recent glibc on a kernel that doesn't support NPTL;
that's not something we can do anything about. If you use an old glibc
with an old kernel everything should still work fine.

-- 
Alexandre Julliard
julliard at winehq.org