Subject: Re: lib/26900: pthread should save/restore %fs resgister on i386
To: Charles M. Hannum <abuse@spamalicious.com>
From: Jaromir Dolecek <jdolecek@NetBSD.org>
List: port-i386
Date: 10/01/2004 18:22:00
Charles M. Hannum wrote:
> That would be an incorrect assumption. The ABI knows that very little code
> uses %fs and %gs on x86. It was also written in the days of the 386, when
> saving and restoring segment registers was very expensive.
So, any harm if we do save & restore them on thread switch?
Jaromir
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