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Subject: Re: lipthread and TLS
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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Jason Evans wrote:

> Daniel Eischen wrote:
>> The toolchain itself should support TLS, so that's probably
>> the place to look, as well as src/libexec/rtld-elf/.  The
>> libpthread library does not use TLS itself, and I don't
>> think anything (yet) uses TLS in libc or in our base system,
>> though I could be wrong.
>
> malloc uses TLS.

Well, I stand corrected then.  If you need to get MIPS up
and running without TLS, you may need to hack malloc()
and anything else that uses TLS to temporarily use
pthread_[gs]etspecific()...

-- 
DE