thread-ready ABIs

[Andreas Schwab]

Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:

|> m68k: Well, maybe it's time to retire these machines.  But on the
|> other hand, there are those useless address registers.  Andreas, Jes?

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.

Andreas.

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