Implementing TLS: step 1

Daniel Eischen eischen at vigrid.com
Thu Jun 19 13:53:35 PDT 2003


On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Thu, Jun 19, 2003 at 04:29:35PM -0400, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Thu, 19 Jun 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
> > > Ok,
> > > 
> > > Step 1: static TLS in libthr.
> > 
> > Can you please make this libkse first?  This is the harder
> > one, and what you may find works for libthr may not work
> > for libkse.  Also, libkse is on the TODO for 5.2-release.
> 
> libthr will be the only threading library on ia64 in 5.2-R if libkse
> is not ported before then. Given the current status libkse is simply
> not a viable threading implementation for me to implement TLS in.

Are you doing this on i386 or ia64?  i386 is our biggest
base and should be the first target...  You will have other
help here (davidxu, kan, myself) also.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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