nvidia OpenGL and lib{thr,kse} related crash

Daniel Eischen eischen at pcnet.com
Wed Jun 11 12:08:00 PDT 2003


On Wed, 11 Jun 2003, Matthew N. Dodd wrote:

> On Thu, 12 Jun 2003, Alexander Nedotsukov wrote:
> > Does some one know any nvidia developer to point them out on this fact?
> 
> The NVIDIA drivers uses %gs for TLS.

That makes them pretty much useless in -current, especially since
libc_r is on the way out.

One wonders why they use pthread_key_create() et al, and still
need TLS.

> I suppose I should have mentioned this.

Probably :-)

-- 
Dan Eischen



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