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Date:      Mon, 22 Dec 2003 08:03:28 -0600 (CST)
From:      Mike Silbersack <silby@silby.com>
To:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Cc:        hackers@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: support for __thread
Message-ID:  <20031222080119.Y2799@odysseus.silby.com>
In-Reply-To: <20031221203311.GW60229@elvis.mu.org>
References:  <20031221135622.GU60229@elvis.mu.org> <Pine.GSO.4.10.10312211507050.23814-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com> <20031221203311.GW60229@elvis.mu.org>

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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:

> Any idea of how much effort it would take?  I have no clue as to
> how to fix our toolchain, gooing the work in ld.so doesn't see
> that awful, but it's not trivial either:
>
> http://people.freebsd.org/~alfred/tls.pdf
>
> I want a threaded webstone so that I can generate a lot more load
> with wimpier client boxes on FreeBSD.

While you're working on gcc / our linker, you may want to investigate this
article that I just saw on news.google.com as well:

---
GCC summit in Kuwait concludes meetings, approves ''anti-terrorism''
agreement
---

I'm not sure exactly what OS support that requires, but having it would
certainly put us ahead of OpenBSD's ProPolice + nonexec stack!

Mike "Silby" Silbersack



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