Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 06:55:03 +0000 From: Tony Finch <dot@dotat.at> To: Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> Cc: Alfred Perlstein <bright@wintelcom.net>, John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.ORG>, Arun Sharma <arun@sharmas.dhs.org>, arch@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs Message-ID: <20001130065503.E58294@hand.dotat.at> In-Reply-To: <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001122180448.7920A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com> References: <20001122133421.S18037@fw.wintelcom.net> <Pine.SUN.3.91.1001122180448.7920A-100000@pcnet1.pcnet.com>
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Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com> wrote: >On Wed, 22 Nov 2000, Alfred Perlstein wrote: >> >> Was there something wrong with the suggestion to put the local info >> on the stack? I just don't see it being discussed at all. > >Yes, I stated that it could not be used. We want to provide a POSIX >complaint API, and this dictates that applications be able to create >stacks of their own size and choosing. We can't rely on stacks being >any particular size, or starting at any particular address. Additionally, wouldn't you have to walk up the stack to find its base? (which I guess would be a bit more expensive than dereferencing %gs) Tony. -- f.a.n.finch dot@dotat.at fanf@covalent.net Chad for President! To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message
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