Subject: Re: The ELF ABI issue
To: None <port-arm@netbsd.org>
From: Jason R Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>
List: port-arm
Date: 03/25/2002 15:41:12
On Mon, Mar 25, 2002 at 03:36:04PM -0800, Jason R Thorpe wrote:
> If we do decide to go this way, the only thing to do is pick the thread
> local storage register... sounded like ARM was thinking of r9 or r10.
> I say we just pick r10.
...and re-reading the thread, since r10 is the PIC register (and r9 is
a fallback), then how about r8 as the thread-local register? (We can
sweep the libraries later, since a libc update is going to be required
for the forthcoming pthread library anyhow...)
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-- Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@wasabisystems.com>