PowerPC64 TLS ABI

[Richard Henderson]

On Fri, Jan 17, 2003 at 05:41:11PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > At the moment Jakub has arranged for LinuxThreads to
> > have its _pthread_descr at the negative offsets from
> > the TP.  We can either continue with that (and have to
> > use an additional addis to access it), or we can use
> > the second word of the TCB to point to it.
> 
> Why would you want to have the second indirection when there is a scheme
> that voids it?

No reason, I guess.


r~