PATCH: Check TLS for libgcc

[H. J. Lu]

On Tue, Jun 19, 2007 at 04:23:40PM -0700, Janis Johnson wrote:
> On Tue, 2007-06-19 at 14:21 -0700, H. J. Lu wrote:
> > I'd like to check if I can use TLS in libgcc.
> 
> What are you planning to use it for?  The static variables
> currently used for keeping rounding mode and fp exception
> information for decimal float support are meant to be used
> for testing purposes only.  That functionality will
> eventually be in an outside library that has full support
> for decimal float rounding modes and fp exceptions, along
> with the rest of the C library support for decimal float.

It will be used by Intel BID library. The BID rounding mode and
exception support in libc should be implemented on top of Intel
BID library.


H.J.