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Re: [CRITICAL] Toolchain TLS support



On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Roman Zippel wrote:
> On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > On Sun, 22 Oct 2006, Roman Zippel wrote:
> > > The next big question will be then how we're going to make the transition 
> > > to the TLS support. IMO it would be very benefical, if we could fix our 
> > > ABI at the same time, e.g. the amount of alignment bugs I had to fix 
> > > lately is not funny anymore.
> > 
> > Which alignment do you mean? 32-bit values aligned on a 2-byte boundary?
> 
> Yes, it causes all kind of stupid bugs, which only trigger on m68k...

But if you change it, how much software that does handle it correctly now will
break?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

						Geert

--
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
							    -- Linus Torvalds



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