nptl-0.29 tcbhead_t

I was getting the following:
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c: In function `__libc_start_main':
../sysdeps/generic/libc-start.c:147: error: structure has no member named `tcbhead'
make[2]: *** [/usr/src/build-glibc/csu/libc-start.o] Error 1
make[2]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/libc-work/csu'
make[1]: *** [csu/subdir_lib] Error 2
make[1]: Leaving directory `/usr/src/libc-work'
make: *** [all] Error 2

about 30 seconds into a build of cvs glibc cvs 030312+nptl 0.29, the line contains a call to
THREAD_SELF in tls.h

before I go too far, is this a tools problem? I am using cvs binutils from 7th of march, gcc from
3rd of march

So that I can understand a build problem with nptl 0.29 (and nptl itself) a bit more clearly:
why was the tcbhead_t in struct pthread made anonymous?  After this change THREAD_SELF can no
longer resolve: offsetof(struct pthread, self)

The changelog mentions that the pthread struct now contains: '...an anonymous union containing an
anonymous tcbhead_t' but my wild guess is that tcbhead_t is a singleton either amongst all threads
or within the realm of a single thread, and is populated with the properties a thread when context
is switched to that thread.  am I correct?  where in the code is tcbhead_t populated?

how do THREAD_SELF and other functions like THREAD_SINGLE_P work if they haven't got a handle to
the tcbhead_t?

what are the consequences of a change such as this (not proposing it, although it does fix the
build process until the next broken macro):

diff -ur nptl-0.29/descr.h libc-work/nptl/descr.h
--- nptl-0.29/descr.h   2003-03-10 17:33:29.000000000 +0000
+++ libc-work/nptl/descr.h      2003-03-13 03:30:02.000000000 +0000
@@ -61,7 +61,7 @@
   /* This overlaps tcbhead_t (see tls.h), as used for TLS without threads.  */
   union
   {
-    tcbhead_t;
+    tcbhead_t tcbh;
     void *__padding[16];
   };
 #elif TLS_MULTIPLE_THREADS_IN_TCB
diff -ur nptl-0.29/sysdeps/i386/tls.h libc-work/nptl/sysdeps/i386/tls.h
--- nptl-0.29/sysdeps/i386/tls.h        2003-03-10 17:33:37.000000000 +0000
+++ libc-work/nptl/sysdeps/i386/tls.h   2003-03-13 03:33:56.000000000 +0000
@@ -240,7 +240,7 @@
 # define THREAD_SELF \
   ({ struct pthread *__self;                                                 \
      asm ("movl %%gs:%c1,%0" : "=r" (__self)                                 \
-         : "i" (offsetof (struct pthread, self)));                           \
+         : "i" (offsetof (struct pthread, tcbh.self)));                      \
      __self;})
 
 
Thanks

  Nick

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