thread-ready ABIs
Andreas Schwab
schwab@suse.de
Fri Jan 18 08:10:00 GMT 2002
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com> writes:
|> 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?
I have raised the issue on the linux-m68k mailinglist. Let's see what
they say about this.
Andreas.
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