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Re: [PATCH] PPC64 tls fixes


> On Tue, Mar 04, 2003 at 07:37:50PM -0800, Roland McGrath wrote:
> > > However (at least for ppc64) the DTPREL16* relocs will never generate 
> > > dynamic endties.
> > 
> > I'm assuming this is a typo for "entries" and you meant dynamic relocs.  
> > I asked about this earlier and Alan Modra answered my question on Monday
> > with this answer contrary to what you've just said:
> > 
> > > As far as I'm aware, there's nothing in the ppc64 ABI that prohibits
> > > position dependent code.  Thus it's valid to generate the ADDR16 relocs
> > > in a shared library.
> 
> ADDR16 != DTPREL16

Well, the 16-bit TLS relocs were what I asked about, perhaps it wasn't
clear.  Would those not also be generated in any non-PIC code doing
IE-model TLS access?


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