[PATCH] TLS support for powerpc and powerpc64

[Geoff Keating]

Dale Johannesen <dalej@apple.com> writes:

> On Friday, April 11, 2003, at 09:31  PM, David Edelsohn wrote:
> 
> > 	(legitimize_tls_address): New.
> > 	(encode_tls_info): New.
> > 	(get_some_local_dynamic_name): New.
> > 	(get_some_local_dynamic_name_1): New.
> >
> > 	Is there a reason why some of the new functions do not have
> > "rs6000_" prepended to them?  If not, they should use the function
> > naming
> > convention for consistency and to prevent name collisions in the
> > future.
> 
> I like and use this convention, but we should be aware that it is not
> C89-compliant (names should be unique in 6 characters).

The rs6000 platforms don't need to worry so much, as the only non-GCC
compiler they build with is the AIX compiler which doesn't appear to
have any particular symbol length restrictions.

-- 
- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org>