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Re: [PATCH] PPC linuxthreads tls.h fix
- From: Alan Modra <amodra at bigpond dot net dot au>
- To: Paul Mackerras <paulus at samba dot org>
- Cc: sjmunroe at vnet dot ibm dot com, libc-alpha <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, Franz-Sirl <Franz-Sirl at lauterbach dot com>
- Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 12:25:20 +1030
- Subject: Re: [PATCH] PPC linuxthreads tls.h fix
- References: <3E5EA083.86C88304@us.ibm.com> <15966.46250.335708.432629@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Fri, Feb 28, 2003 at 12:00:26PM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> I will talk to Alan about expanding the TCB to 16
> bytes on ppc32 to accommodate that.
I'm not at all fussed over what you do with the TCB. Since our tls
abi has the thread pointer relative to the end of the TCB, you can
change what's in TCB and its size, and binutils and gcc won't be
affected. Perhaps our ABI document shouldn't even mention the size
of the TCB.
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Alan Modra
IBM OzLabs - Linux Technology Centre