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Re: emulating tls for systems without


On 10/4/06, Steven Bosscher <stevenb.gcc@gmail.com> wrote:
On Wednesday 04 October 2006 23:40, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> > 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?

I don't think LTO is quite the same, because it is not as "ready"
as this emultls stuff.  But other projects (vectorizer, new VN,
df branch, libgcc-math, etc...) are basically ready, and they're
being held up because merges like this _will_ delay releases and
cause/expose new/more bugs.  IMHO this should not have been put
in the trunk regardless of how useful it may be for platforms
without TLS.

But ultimately, it's up to Mark of course...

Given that even wrong-code non-regression fixes have to wait putting in such stuff really discourages work on fixing regressions.

Richard.


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