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Re: [PATCH, RFC] MIPS: Implement the getcontext API
On Thu, 5 Mar 2009, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> stillborn EABI and NUBI variants. Add various Linux and GNU specific
> enhancements and deviations from the previously mentioned documents for
> example for TLS. Frequently the documentation really is just in the code,
> a mailing list archive or in the back of somebody's brain ...
(Although it took a while for the documentation to catch up with the
implementation and changes made in the course of patch review, as far as I
know <http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/NPTL> is now an accurate description
of TLS for MIPS.)
> Somebody could probably earn a medal by writing a single consolidated
> and readable piece of documentation.
Anyone seriously wishing to produce a complete and current and
copyright-clean description of what the MIPS ABIs now are might wish to
note that a similar project for (32-bit) Power Architecture has been going
on since late 2006 and we still haven't quite got to the point of
releasing a public review draft. There is a lot of work involved.
--
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@codesourcery.com