thread-ready ABIs

[Ulrich Drepper]

Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> That would be certainly not worth it. I hope at least that it is an
> big improvement for glibc, offseting the cost it adds to the context
> switch. 

This changes reaches far beyond glibc, it's an ABI change which can be
used by the compiler to generate much better code for threaded apps.
Look at the IA-64 ABI.  I'll have at some time similar documentation
for the other architectures but not now.

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