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RE: libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation
- From: Anthony Green <green at redhat dot com>
- To: "Boehm, Hans" <hans dot boehm at hp dot com>
- Cc: Jeff Sturm <jsturm at one-point dot com>, "'Michael Koch'" <konqueror at gmx dot de>, java at gcc dot gnu dot org
- Date: Mon, 01 Mar 2004 14:19:35 -0800
- Subject: RE: libgcj and the NPTL posix threads implementation
- Organization: Red Hat, Inc.
- References: <0C3EFB691636964BBF914AE56AE83A89501FA4@hplex4.hpl.hp.com>
On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 14:16, Boehm, Hans wrote:
> I'm a bit confused, in part because I'm an X86 assembly amateur.
Same here.
> I assume both of the proposals below retrieve a value stored at an offset from
> %gs? (What's "move"? Is it different from "mov" or a typo?) Won't %gs itself do as
> a thread-specific value?
That was my first guess as well, but I only get 33 out of it. I don't
know why, and I'm not motivated enough to find out :-) glibc uses
%gs:0x8 so that's what I went with.
AG
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Anthony Green <green@redhat.com>
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