support for __thread

[Julian Elischer]

Alfred Perlstein wrote:
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> 
> 
> Well yes, but first would be getting the toolchain to emit
> proper code...

It'd help but the  linker is where all the action happens..
Marcel seems to understand this quite well.

> 

> 
> I can give the ld.so work a shot if someone gives me a general
> idea of how to get at the linker sets and registers in C code.

WHen you have read and understood the document that describes the __thread
implementation then I guess the next step would be to read and understand
ld (and the rt version).


> 
> It would be nice if it worked with libc_r as well, is there
> any chance for that?  Webstone doesn't need kernel threads
> really... the relatively lightweight nature of libc_r doing
> strictly network IO makes it an attractive solution for what
> I'm trying to accomplish.

Once it has been done for libpthread then it is almost free for libc_r
because in libc_r we can set %gx once and forget it and just change the
address it points to whenever we schedule a different thread.


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