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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