Retiring from uClibc development

[Jan-Benedict Glaw]

On Tue, 2006-04-11 21:44:27 +0100, Paul Brook <paul at codesourcery.com> wrote:
> 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.

Well, NPTL might be a highly efficient thread package, but there are
others that work "reasonably" well, too. We've seen various thread
packages and some of those really worked quite well.

To be honest, I was (personally) satisfied by linuxthreads, but for
basically a new port, I'll probably not attempt to port it[1].
Instead, I'll follow the whatever direction other Linux targets go,
and for now, that's NTPL with TLS.

MfG, JBG
[1] If gas, gcc and glibc changes seem to be "hard" enough, it may be
that I try to port linuxthreads in the mean time...

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