Retiring from uClibc development

Paul Brook paul at codesourcery.com
Tue Apr 11 20:44:27 UTC 2006


On Tuesday 11 April 2006 20:45, Rich Felker wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 11, 2006 at 01:53:59PM -0400, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Tuesday 11 April 2006 13:45, Jan-Benedict Glaw wrote:
> > > (Is there some kind of documentation available what needs to be
> > > supported in binutils and GCC for NPTL and TLS?)
> >
> > first worry about TLS, then worry about NPTL
>
> I would encourage you to not support but reject TLS. It's an ugly,
> bloated, nonstandard extension to the language and its propagation
> into user programs should be discouraged as much as possible.

What do you suggest as an alternative? AFAICS NPTL (which implies TLS support) 
in the only realistic option if you're serious about thread support.

Paul



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