LDT use in LinuxThreads

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Tue May 23 10:43:00 GMT 2000


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

> Shouldn't that be checked at the run-time?

That's too much of an overhead.  The use of the LDT is there to speed
things up.

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