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Date:      Thu, 22 Mar 2007 13:14:44 -0400 (EDT)
From:      Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>
To:        Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc:        freebsd-threads@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: lipthread and TLS
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.64.0703221312150.9927@sea.ntplx.net>
In-Reply-To: <4602B28C.1020204@elischer.org>
References:  <2779e6080703220210u321522c7l40cf8555cfdc2404@mail.gmail.com> <4602B28C.1020204@elischer.org>

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On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, Julian Elischer wrote:

> 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?

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.

-- 
DE



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