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Re: PATCH: cygwin/mingw32 PE Define useful TLS and compatibility symbols.
- From: Christopher Faylor <me at cgf dot cx>
- To: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com
- Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:45:38 -0400
- Subject: Re: PATCH: cygwin/mingw32 PE Define useful TLS and compatibility symbols.
- References: <40C2E4CD.3020302@aaronwl.com> <20040606204308.GA1958@coe.casa.cgf.cx>
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On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:43:08PM -0400, Christopher Faylor wrote:
>On Sun, Jun 06, 2004 at 04:33:01AM -0500, Aaron W. LaFramboise wrote:
>>Hi,
>>
>>This small patch adds some useful symbols for TLS support and MSVC
>>compatibility.
>>
>>___crt_xl_start__ is necessary for TLS callback support, something I'm
>>hoping to do nice things with in the near future.
>>
>>The other similarly named symbols make compatibility with MSVC-generated
>>code a little easier to accomplish (in particular, ctors and dtors).
>>
>>___tls_start__ and ___tls_end___ simplify the TLS support code.
>
>This seems fine to me. Better MSVC compatibility seems like a good goal.
>I'll check this in in the next couple of days unless someone objects.
It was more than a couple of days but I've finally checked this in.
Sorry for the delay.
cgf