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From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
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Subject: Re: Rearranging kse mailbox
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On Fri, 18 Jul 2003, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:

> On Fri, Jul 18, 2003 at 12:52:00PM -0700, Julian Elischer wrote:
> > for TLS we need to ensure that the first few (actually, 1 but a couple
> > more can't hurt) entry in the KSE mailbox is available as a pointer to
> > the TLS. (on 386 at least). Marcel probablyt has more to say on the
> > topic.
> 
> Good point. I forgot about TLS. I'll bump it up on my todo list.

I don't have teh TLS spec with me here..
I don't know if other architectures would make other requirements..

%gs on x86 'points' to a segment containing the KSE mailbox.
I'm not sure how we'd go on other architectures..
 maybe we end up doing it in reverse..
([TLS reg]->our_kse_mbox might be a pointer to the mailbox?)

> 
> -- 
>  Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net
>