On Mon, 2004-06-07 at 14:14, Daniel Eischen wrote: > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, Doug Rabson wrote: > > > On Sunday 06 June 2004 20:55, Daniel Eischen wrote: > > > On Sun, 6 Jun 2004, Scott Long wrote: > > > > All, > > > > > > > > We are about 4-6 weeks away from starting the 5.3 release cycle. > > > > As it stands, KSE still only works reliably on i386. There are > > > > reports of significant instability on amd64, and it doesn't work at > > > > all on alpha and sparc64. I'm willing to drop the alpha > > > > requirement and maybe even the sparc64 requirement, but there > > > > absolutely will not be a 5.3 until amd64 is solid. Please contact > > > > myself, Dan Eischen, and David Xu if you are interested in helping > > > > out. > > > > > > amd64 looks to be a problem in readline which doesn't seem > > > to redispatch signal handlers with SA_SIGINFO arguments. > > > > > > David also has patches for debugging support at: > > > > > > http://people.freebsd.org/~davidxu/kse/dbg/ > > > > > > Doug Rabson also has basic TLS support working in perforce. > > > It'd be nice to get TLS and debugging in before 5.3-release. > > > > I'll probably try to commit some kind of TLS support into current in the > > next couple of weeks. Its likely to only support i386 and will be > > stubbed out for other platforms. Right now, I'm just waiting for some > > kind of feedback from an nvidia developer whos testing it. > > Are you using the extra (*(%gs)->tls) to get TLS? Yes. Our compiler always generates code like this: movl %gs:0,%eax movl 1234,%ntpoff(foo)(%eax)Received on Mon Jun 07 2004 - 11:31:12 UTC
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