Some more on TLS

[Marcel Moolenaar]

On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 11:05:16PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
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> On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
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> > Gang,
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> > A quick test with our in-tree bits revealed:
> > 
> > o  There's no compiler support for TLS on sparc64.
> That's not a problem yet..

I just noticed that alpha also doesn't have TLS support. The compiler
does not complain when it encounters the __thread keyword, but the
access sequences for both static and dynamic TLS are no different from
access sequences for (regular) global data.

> > o  There's no assembler support for TLS on i386 and amd64.
> >
> 
> that's a bummer.. Who is the 'gas' person?

obrien@

> I don't think our assembler has been updated for ages..

It's probably a good idea to upgrade binutils for other reasons as well.

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