Linus Torvalds wrote:
>>I presume *%gs:0x18 is only for shared objects?
>
>
> No, it's for everything, but it requires a glibc that has set it up.
Actually, the above is used only in the DSOs. In static objects I'm
using a global variable. This saves the %gs prefix.
But of course Linus is right: using the new functionality needs quite a
bit of infrastructure which most definitely isn't present in the libc
you have on your system. See my post from a few minutes ago.
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