Re: [patch] tls-2.5.30-A1

Jamie Lokier (lk@tantalophile.demon.co.uk)
Thu, 8 Aug 2002 13:25:05 +0100

Ingo Molnar wrote:
> the attached patch (against BK-curr + Luca Barbieri's two TLS patches)
> does two things:
>
> - it implements a second TLS entry for Wine's purposes.

Oh good; I was going to ask for this. Wine isn't the only program that
wants to use its own thread-local storage mechanism and link with Glibc
at the same time.

The LDT works, but with limitations and overhead.

thanks,
-- Jamie
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