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Re: PowerPC64 TLS ABI
- From: Roland McGrath <roland at redhat dot com>
- To: Richard Henderson <rth at twiddle dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com, libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Fri, 17 Jan 2003 17:41:11 -0800
- Subject: Re: PowerPC64 TLS ABI
> At the moment Jakub has arranged for LinuxThreads to
> have its _pthread_descr at the negative offsets from
> the TP. We can either continue with that (and have to
> use an additional addis to access it), or we can use
> the second word of the TCB to point to it.
Why would you want to have the second indirection when there is a scheme
that voids it?