Re: ELF TLS technical details

[Steve Munroe <sjmunroe at us dot ibm dot com>]

"Albert Miranda" <m.b.albert@gmail.com> wrote on 03/29/2006 05:05:43 PM:

> Hello,
>
> First of all, I'm sorry if this is not the right place to ask this.
>
> I'm working on a project related with the dynamic linker and I have to
> do some work related to PT_TLS segments when loading multithreaded
> programs on a PowerPC architecture (both 32 and 64-bits). I've been
> looking for info quite some time, since the latest draft of the
> Generic Elf ABI doesn't contain anything about it and neither do the
> processor suplements (at least the ones I'm currently using). I have
> found some interesting info at Ulrich Drepper's website but
> unfortunately nothing about PowerPC.
>
> Can anyone give me some advice about where I must search? Are there any
specs?
>
> Thank you very much,
>

hhhmmm is seems that the powerpc64 TLS doc was never forwarded to Uli for
inclusion the in his TLS doc. Probably My bad.

(See attached file: ppc64tls.txt)

The 32-bit TLS design was simular. Alan, Paul, Do you have the PowerPC
32-bit TLS documentation?

Steven J. Munroe
Linux on Power Toolchain Architect
IBM Corporation, Linux Technology Center

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