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On Tue, Jan 14, 2003 at 08:15:02AM +0000, Ulrich Drepper wrote: > This change makes no sense. The initial comment about removing the > union on ia64 is there because of the requirement that tp points a > location containing the DTV pointer, followed by some other 8 bytes. > I.e., the dtv pointer in the union is not necessary. > > How and where the thread descriptor (not TCB in ia64 speak) is stored > remains to be seen. I haven't looked closely enough to see what Jakub did. I left p_header as is on IA-64 because I did not want to conditionalize all setters in the first phase. It makes sense to have some kind of p_header at the end on DTV arches, which need to contain at least multiple_threads and this sysinfo on IA-64. Jakub
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