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Re: [mips-tls] A couple of potential changes to the MIPS TLS ABI
- To: Dominic Sweetman <dom@xxxxxxxx>
- Subject: Re: [mips-tls] A couple of potential changes to the MIPS TLS ABI
- From: Thiemo Seufer <ica2_ts@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 1 Feb 2005 23:02:11 +0100
Dominic Sweetman wrote:
[snip]
> > There are a couple of other quirks for this; the only one I can think
> > of offhand is MIPS-I load delay slots, which would mean neither
> > sequence could be used as-is.
>
> There are relatively few MIPS-I machines out there. Would it be
> unacceptable if the standard NPTL system failed to work on them?
But there are some, and a generic userland should IMHO support them.
It's a small price to keep o32 working everywhere.
Thiemo
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