TLS stuff

[Andreas Jaeger]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

> I've checked i a first batch of thread-local storage related changes.
> Nothing works yet, it's just the beginning.  But it is time to get the
> ABIs hammered out for anything but ia64, x86, and sparc.
>
> Those who are watching the todo list might have seen a new item for
> the tls integration.  The description of it contains a reference of
> the TLS document I wrote.  It's reasonable complete and usable though
> there will be changes.  Give it a read and create the ABIs for your
> platform.  It's really time now.

Thanks for writing up this paper.  I'll look at the x86-64 part soon.

I've noticed that you mentioned a Sun document.  Is Sun the only other
OS implementing it this way?  Can you point me to the document since I
couldn't locate it myself?

Thanks,
Andreas
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