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Re: thread-ready ABIs

From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
Cc: GNU libc hacker <libc-hacker at sources dot redhat dot com>, linux-mips at oss dot sgi dot com
Date: 18 Jan 2002 11:20:17 -0800
Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs
References: <m3elkoa5dw.fsf@myware.mynet> <20020118101908.C23887@lucon.org><m3elkn4ikq.fsf@myware.mynet> <20020118110844.A25165@lucon.org>
Reply-to: drepper at redhat dot com (Ulrich Drepper)

"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:

> I can write to k0/k1. But the value is not perserved by kernel.

Strange.  This means the registers cannot have been used so far and if
the kernel can be changed it is free.

> I don't think so. k0/k1 is reserved for OS. I don't know if OS can
> restore it for use space or not.

There are so many different MIPS implementations that I wouldn't bet
on it.  One would have to look at the minimum architecture definition.
Also, what do the new MIPS32 cores do?

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