RFA: MIPS TLS support

[Richard Sandiford]

Daniel Jacobowitz <drow@false.org> writes:

> 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.

I'm certainly worried about IRIX more than anything else non-GNU.
But I've no real reason to believe there _is_ a problem here.
It was a genuine "don't know" question.

I've not seen any complaints from *BSD folks on longer-standing TLS
architectures, so maybe that's a sign we're all clear.

Richard