[PATCH] PowerPC - Add a faster way to get the thread id

[Joseph S. Myers]

On Mon, 5 Nov 2012, Roland McGrath wrote:

> There is nothing powerpc-specific about that information, so it would never
> be appropriate to add a powerpc-specific interface for it.  If you want to
> make the case for adding a public interface to access this Linux-specific
> information, make that case (I doubt we'll be convinced).

The request for such an interface is bug 6399 - and 14300 for conversion 
of a pthread_t to a TID.  If we conclude that we don't want such 
interfaces then those bugs should be closed.

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Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com