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On Wednesday 24 March 2004 00:36, Julian Elischer wrote:
> The linker and dynamic linker are expected to 'plonk' snippets of
> machine dependent code into whereever an access to TLS is being made,
> depending on whether the access is to the same statically linked
> module or another module, loaded at run time, or the 'main' module.
> The "wheres" for these 'runtime code-insertions' are marked by the
> toolchain.

I'll take the dynamic linker if no-one else wants it. I'm not coming to 
the bay area to do it though :-). I've been seriously considering 
putting in symbol version support too.