thread-ready ABIs
Ulrich Drepper
drepper@redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 08:07:00 GMT 2002
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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