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Re: thread-ready ABIs

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: Andreas Schwab <schwab at suse dot de>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>
Date: 18 Jan 2002 08:07:52 -0800
Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs
References: <m3elkoa5dw.fsf@myware.mynet> <je3d1329l7.fsf@sykes.suse.de>
Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> writes:

> None of the address registers are useless, they are all needed.  Reserving
> one of them as a thread register means an ABI change, since currently all
> (address or data) registers are either scratch or callee-saved.

And this means?  Make a decision.  Will you break the ABI or never
have a thread register?

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