Question

Trying to run a C++ program, I get segmentation
faults which appear to be specific to NetBSD. Bert Hubert wrote the
simple test program (at the end of this message) and, indeed, it crashes only on NetBSD.

% uname -a
NetBSD golgoth 5.0.1 NetBSD 5.0.1 (GENERIC) #0: Thu Oct  1 15:46:16 CEST 2009
+stephane@golgoth:/usr/obj/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC i386

% g++ --version
g++ (GCC) 4.1.3 20080704 prerelease (NetBSD nb2 20081120)
Copyright (C) 2006 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
This is free software; see the source for copying conditions.  There is NO
warranty; not even for MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.

% gdb thread-local-storage-powerdns
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(gdb) run
Starting program: /home/stephane/Programmation/C++/essais/thread-local-storage-powerdns

Program received signal SIGSEGV, Segmentation fault.
0x0804881b in main () at thread-local-storage-powerdns.cc:20
20        t_a = new Bogo('a');
(gdb)

On other Unix, it works fine. Is there a known issue in NetBSD with
C++ thread-local storage?

#include <stdio.h>


class Bogo
{
public:

  explicit Bogo(char a)
  {
 d_a = a;
  }

  char d_a;
};

__thread Bogo* t_a;

int main()
{
  t_a = new Bogo('a');

  Bogo* b = t_a;

  printf("%c\n", b->d_a);
}

Answer 1

NetBSD does not support thread-local storage. Most of the other BSDs do however.