Some more on TLS

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Fri Jul 18 22:16:18 PDT 2003


On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Sat, Jul 19, 2003 at 01:02:26AM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > > 
> > > A quick test with our in-tree bits revealed:
> > > 
> > > o  There's no compiler support for TLS on sparc64.
> > > o  There's no assembler support for TLS on i386 and amd64.
> > > 
> > > This means that only the toolchain on alpha and ia64 support TLS
> > > completely.
> > 
> > How does Linux support TLS?
> 
> What do you mean exactly?

Sorry, I assumed that Linux somehow supports it from the
way the NVidia guys were talking and from Ulrich's paper.
Maybe they don't yet...  I just wondered what toolchain
they use.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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