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Re: Add elf64-sparc TLS support.
- From: Eric Botcazou <ebotcazou at libertysurf dot fr>
- To: "David S. Miller" <davem at davemloft dot net>
- Cc: binutils at sources dot redhat dot com,jakub at redhat dot com
- Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 23:50:16 +0200
- Subject: Re: Add elf64-sparc TLS support.
- References: <20050411143049.2ca61b9e.davem@davemloft.net>
> We also get GC and refcounting as a side effect.
Great!
> If you now diff elf32-sparc and elf64-sparc it is clear there is a lot
> of code that can be commonized out, in a similar style to elfxx-mips.c
My wildest dream. :-)
> I intend to do that in the near future so that maintaining the sparc
> BFD backends becomes simpler. The only really difficult difference
> between these two backends is the special reloc counting necessary to
> handle OLO10 relocations.
Ideally a Bugzilla PR should be opened to track this project, with the
SPARC-oriented folks in the CC list, so as to avoid duplicating work.
> I've updated the TLS sparc64 testcases in the linker as well. I only
> run the sparc64 TLS tests on platforms other than sparc-*-elf since it
> does not multiarch. This is based upon feedback from Eric.
There are probably others (sparc-rtems now comes to mind), I'll update the
list when I get a chance.
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Eric Botcazou