TLS, Thread Local Storage..
Daniel Eischen
eischen at vigrid.com
Wed Feb 25 10:39:10 PST 2004
On Wed, 25 Feb 2004, David O'Brien wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 24, 2004 at 05:06:22PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> >
> > Now that the real threading libraries are in more common usage we need
> > to tackle TLS.
>
> Uh... sparc64 and Alpha don't have KSE yet. Isn't that the next thing
> that seriously needs tackeling???
>From the threads library point of view, adding TLS support
can be done regardless of whether KSE works on sparc64 or
alpha. The framework is all there for sparc64 and alpha
and TLS support for them can be added just like the others.
I view TLS support and KSE working on alpha/sparc64 as two
disjoint things.
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Dan Eischen
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