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Re: emulating tls for systems without
- From: Andrew Pinski <pinskia at physics dot uc dot edu>
- To: echristo at apple dot com (Eric Christopher)
- Cc: rth at redhat dot com (Richard Henderson), jakub at redhat dot com (Jakub Jelinek), dnovillo at redhat dot com (Diego Novillo), gcc-patches at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Wed, 4 Oct 2006 17:40:48 -0400 (EDT)
- Subject: Re: emulating tls for systems without
>
> Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> > On Wed, Oct 04, 2006 at 02:12:12PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:
> >> Having finally worked out the tcl bits, and a couple of non-regressions
> >> that showed up during a merge, I've committed the following.
> >
> > This is great stuff and I may have a use for it... but was it really
> > necessary to commit during Stage 3, when we seem to be having a
> > remarkable amount of trouble getting the next release together?
> > I can't see any conceivable interpretation of this as a regression.
> >
>
> Maybe not, but it does have a huge use. It means that all platforms can
> use the thread keyword without needing to have tls on the platform.
So what, LTO has a huge use but you don't see that going in for 4.2 also?
Thanks,
Andrew Pinski