thread-ready ABIs

Geoff Keating geoffk@geoffk.org
Fri Jan 18 14:07:00 GMT 2002


> From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
> Date: 17 Jan 2002 16:07:23 -0800

> PPC (32-bit) is known to be a problem.  I've seen several proposals as
> to what register to use but haven't seen a final decision.  Problems
> with the different PPC implementations are probably hindering this.
> Geoff, could you please make a decision?  I hope the PPC64 ABI already
> allocated a thread register.

It will be %r2 for ELF.  No register is available for AIX and I will
leave that unless someone can make a proposal.

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- Geoffrey Keating <geoffk@geoffk.org> <geoffk@redhat.com>



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