thread-ready ABIs

[H . J . Lu]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:09:32PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> When is the thread pointer accessed?  My understanding was that it
> would be needed for the lifetime of the application, in functions
> called from the application.  In that case its value can not be
> trusted.

You are right. If we use $23 as the thread pointer, we have to change
the ABI. Any assembler codes have to be checked.


H.J.