Re: patch for x86 treatment of fs and gs in signal handlers

Ulrich Drepper (drepper@cygnus.com)
29 Aug 1998 22:02:44 -0700


Jamie Lokier <lkd@tantalophile.demon.co.uk> writes:

> Which has given me a whole new idea on how thread-local data could work
> just by declaring it with a `thread_local' GCC attribute and some linker
> tricks.

It's not good idea to tigh gcc's behaviour so tightly to one thread model.

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