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Date:      Thu, 27 Jul 2006 14:53:29 -0700
From:      Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
To:        Tijl Coosemans <tijl@ulyssis.org>
Cc:        Daniel Eischen <deischen@freebsd.org>, freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org, freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org, Michael Nottebrock <lofi@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: WINE vs. FreeBSD
Message-ID:  <44C935D9.8040604@elischer.org>
In-Reply-To: <200607272308.27425.tijl@ulyssis.org>
References:  <200607221914.15826.lofi@freebsd.org>	<200607250358.21457.tijl@ulyssis.org>	<200607271121.17313.jhb@freebsd.org> <200607272308.27425.tijl@ulyssis.org>

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Tijl Coosemans wrote:

>On Thursday 27 July 2006 17:21, John Baldwin wrote:
>  
>
>>On Monday 24 July 2006 21:58, Tijl Coosemans wrote:
>>    
>>
>>>However, Wine/Windows uses %fs for TLS and it appears that the
>>>FreeBSD kernel doesn't preserve it. It always ends up pointing to
>>>GUDATA_SEL.
>>>      
>>>
>>The kernel should preserve %fs across syscalls, traps, and faults. 
>>Can you point to a specific case where %fs is not preserved?  It
>>sounds like %fs is never set to a value in Wine.
>>    
>>
>
>Yes, it was a combination of compiler optimizations and an inline 
>assembly block missing __volatile__.
>
>  
>
does this mean that wine will work from now on?
i.e. is the fix being fed back into wine sources?



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