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Subject: Re: lipthread and TLS
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Girish Motwani wrote:
> Hi,
>        I am working on freebsd libpthread support for MIPS. Is thread local
> storage support (TLS) a pre-requisite for this, or the kse implementation
> can work without TLS ?
> 

well one shouls support TLS..   does the TLS document give information for MIPS?