On Mon, 26 Feb 2007, Brian Morris wrote:
> i believe that handhelds will be the hot product in the next few years. Perhaps coldfire devices will proliferate. Who knows? > > could someone explain issue with TLS, > The release after Etch requires glibc 2.4/2.5, which means porting the Native POSIX Threading Library. As I understand it, the problem is that Thread Local Storage needs to be implemented in-kernel, and then __thread support could be done in GCC, and only then can a glibc boffin port NPTL and current glibc. I don't know if binutils is implicated too. Anyway, it is non-trivial (if not onerous). -f -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]