thread-ready ABIs

Ulrich Drepper drepper@redhat.com
Fri Jan 18 09:14:00 GMT 2002


Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:

> I was just talking about the overhead for unthreaded apps (paying
> for things you don't use) 

That's the same.  There won't be special versions of libraries etc
which can be used in multi-threaded apps only.  Instead the code will
always use the same code and therefore the thread register handling
must always be enabled.

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