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Date: Mon, 16 Jun 2003 21:18:35 -0400
From: Alexander Kabaev <kabaev@mail.ru>
To: Gareth Hughes <gareth@nvidia.com>
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Subject: Re: NVIDIA and TLS
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On Mon, 16 Jun 2003 18:11:30 -0700
Gareth Hughes <gareth@nvidia.com> wrote:

> 
> If FreeBSD support ELF TLS and __thread variables in ANY form, our
> driver will use this support.  If the best you can do is a function
> call per access, so be it.  It doesn't sound like there are any other
> options, given the fact that you ship with three different thread
> libraries.
Three different libraries can attempt to coordinate and reserve exactly
the same TLS segment size.