Re: Work on adding TLS support to LLVM on m68k

[Finn Thain <fthain%linux-m68k.org@localhost>]

On Sat, 28 Jan 2023, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:

> Hello!
> 
> The maintainers of the m68k backend in LLVM have started initial 
> planning for adding TLS support. An issue for that has been opened in 
> the LLVM Github tracker [1].
> 
> If anyone can help shed more light on how TLS works on m68k, please add 
> your comments to this Github issue. Any information on the topic is 
> highly appreciated.
> 
> Thanks,
> Adrian
> 
> > [1] https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project/issues/60354
> 

The developers of the TLS/NPTL support for m68k/coldfire were working for 
Freescale and Codesourcery at the time...

https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2008/02/msg00212.html
https://lists.debian.org/debian-68k/2007/11/msg00071.html

The toolchain mailing lists at sourceware.org might be a good place to 
seek technical information about the implementation. Or you could try 
sending a question to the old e-mail addresses of the people who sent the 
patches e.g.

https://git.kernel.org/torvalds/c/9674cdc74d63