TLS, Thread Local Storage..

David O'Brien obrien at freebsd.org
Wed Mar 17 18:12:21 PST 2004


On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:20:38AM -0800, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 10:09:22AM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > Ok. I assume this applies to i386 and amd64 only and that alpha and
> > sparc64 still lack compiler support for it or are alpha and sparc64
> > fixed too?
> 
> http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html says nothing special is needed
> for Alpha.  Can you clarify?

Marcel can you explicitly add to your tls.html document that GCC 3.3 does
not support TLS on Sparc64 and Alpha?  Also that GCC 3.4 *CLAIMS* to
support TLS on all our platforms, but that tests are needed to determine
the truth?.

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-- David  (obrien at FreeBSD.org)


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