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Re: thread-ready ABIs

From: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
To: Daniel Jacobowitz <dan at debian dot org>
Cc: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>,"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro at ds2 dot pg dot gda dot pl>,"Kevin D. Kissell" <kevink at mips dot com>,Machida Hiroyuki <machida at sm dot sony dot co dot jp>,GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com>, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
Date: Mon, 21 Jan 2002 11:18:08 -0800
Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs
References: <003701c1a25f$8abfc120$0deca8c0@Ulysses> <Pine.GSO.3.96.1020121144413.22392C-100000@delta.ds2.pg.gda.pl> <20020121102455.A27606@lucon.org> <m3zo37tutx.fsf@myware.mynet> <20020121105253.B28087@lucon.org> <20020121135910.A26790@nevyn.them.org> <20020121110533.B28350@lucon.org> <20020121140932.A27328@nevyn.them.org>

On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:09:32PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote:
> 
> When is the thread pointer accessed?  My understanding was that it
> would be needed for the lifetime of the application, in functions
> called from the application.  In that case its value can not be
> trusted.

You are right. If we use $23 as the thread pointer, we have to change
the ABI. Any assembler codes have to be checked.


H.J.

References:
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: Kevin D. Kissell
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: Maciej W. Rozycki
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: Ulrich Drepper
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: H . J . Lu
- Re: thread-ready ABIs
  - From: Daniel Jacobowitz

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