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Re: RFA: MIPS TLS support
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 02:26:27PM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:
> > On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:36:11AM +0000, Richard Sandiford wrote:
> >> What happens if we advertise TLS support on an OS that doesn't actually
> >> support it (or at least not this flavour of it)? E.g. IRIX? IRIX
> >> versions of gas will pass the configure-time assembler check in the
> >> same circumstances as a GNU/Linux gas would. I'm thinking mostly
> >> of what happens when you use a tls-capable version of gcc to build
> >> some autoconfed package.
> >>
> >> I notice there are some cases of #undef HAVE_AS_TLS/#define HAVE_AS_TLS 0
> >> for lynx.
> >
> > This isn't a new problem :-) Mind if we leave it for someone else to
> > solve?
>
> That's fine. There's plenty of time before 4.1 to see if it's
> a real problem or not.
It's been there since TLS was added, around 3.3. Unless you're worried
about IRIX in partiular.
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Daniel Jacobowitz
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