thread-ready ABIs

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> On x86-64 we have the situation that context switches get somewhat more 
> expensive as soon as thread registers are used. It would be nice if 
> use of thread registers in non threaded programs could be avoided.

Not possible.

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