confirmed working NPTL revision?

[Rob Landley]

On Tuesday 16 September 2008 05:12:15 Will Newton wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 16, 2008 at 7:23 AM, Carmelo AMOROSO <carmelo.amoroso at st.com> 
wrote:
> >> 1) How platform specific is it?
> >
> > Fully, TLS relocations are different from one arch to another.
> >
> >> 2) Does it actually have anything to do with nptl?
> >
> > Nothing, just dynamic linker, and obviously your compiler has to
> > recognize the __thread keyword.
>
> I was under the impression that TLS support was a requirement of
> implementing NPTL, is that not the case?
>
> http://www.linux-mips.org/wiki/NPTL

But NPTL is not a requirement for implementing TLS, and TLS is independently 
useful.

Rob