thread-local data access

[Ulrich Drepper]

Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com> writes:

> Thinking about it, wouldn't be better to just make the other arches slower
> (e.g. by managing a global array of pointers to thread-local data indexed by
> say [STACK_POINTER >> 16] (provided that we make sure that no two thread
> stacks share the same 64K page))?

This is how finding thread local data (and also the thread descriptor)
works in the moment.  Inlining these computations is a problem since
it would mean you cannot set the stack address (and size) yourself
anymore.

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