TLS, Thread Local Storage..

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 01:04:55PM -0500, Alexander Kabaev wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 09:45:23 -0800
> Marcel Moolenaar <marcel at xcllnt.net> wrote:
> 
> > On Wed, Feb 25, 2004 at 12:17:47AM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > > > 
> > > Who can tell me how well our linker understands what gcc puts out
> > > when given a __thread directive..
> > 
> > We need a binutils update anyway. The assembler doesn't understand
> > the output of the compiler on most platforms anyway. See also:
> > 	http://people.freebsd.org/~marcel/tls.html
> > 
> There was a missed merge from stock GCC 3.3 code that I failed to add to
> local config files in FreeBSD CVS and that resulted in GCC spewing
> assembly output which as could't understand. This bug was fixed some
> time ago.

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?

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel at xcllnt.net