Bug#246689: PPC libc6 should be built with TLS and NPTL

[Daniel Jacobowitz <dan@debian.org>]

On Fri, Apr 30, 2004 at 11:59:21PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > As I've explained to a lot of people now, because our GCC 3.3 does not
> > support TLS.
> > 
> > We can not switch until we're ready to make changes to the default
> > compiler, which would be inappropriate in this stage of the release
> > process.  I think.
> 
> Hrm... Not sure about 3.3 upstream. I though it did. 3.3-hammer
> definitely does, and 3.4 of course does.

3.3 does not.  Nor does Debian's 3.3.  I have patches to add it, but as
I said, they were available after we thought we had frozen.

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Daniel Jacobowitz
MontaVista Software                         Debian GNU/Linux Developer