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From: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
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Subject: Re: Some more on TLS
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> Gang,
> 
> A quick test with our in-tree bits revealed:
> 
> o  There's no compiler support for TLS on sparc64.
> o  There's no assembler support for TLS on i386 and amd64.
> 
> This means that only the toolchain on alpha and ia64 support TLS
> completely.

How does Linux support TLS?

-- 
Dan Eischen