Can I use LDT on i586?

[Ulrich Drepper]

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> Glibc only uses LDT on i686. I looked at the 2.4 kernel. LDT seems to
> be compiled in even for i586. Can I use LDT on i586 for linuxthreads?

In theory yes.  But I never tried it and I'm not convince the speed is OK.

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