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Re: TLS limitations

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Jakub Jelinek <jakub at redhat dot com>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 13 Feb 2002 15:13:32 -0800
Subject: Re: TLS limitations
References: <m3n0ydvhg5.fsf@myware.mynet><20020213234843.A798@sunsite.ms.mff.cuni.cz>
Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> Well, a dlopen/dlclose in a cycle could trigger it in a day or so
> on current systems, but that's certainly not a reasonable program.

Everything breaks if you are out to do it.  This is in any case one of
the issues where I intend to wait and see.  Adding the overflow
detection Roland suggested certainly is OK and when somebody really
complains and a simple "get a real (= 64-bit) machine" doesn't help
we'll see what is reasonable to do.

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