From owner-freebsd-arch Sun Nov 26 23:44:37 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-arch@freebsd.org Received: from mail-relay.eunet.no (mail-relay.eunet.no [193.71.71.242]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B268E37B4C5; Sun, 26 Nov 2000 23:44:34 -0800 (PST) Received: from login-1.eunet.no (login-1.eunet.no [193.75.110.2]) by mail-relay.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.9.3/GN) with ESMTP id IAA12864; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:43:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) Received: from localhost (mbendiks@localhost) by login-1.eunet.no (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA54208; Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:43:57 +0100 (CET) (envelope-from mbendiks@eunet.no) X-Authentication-Warning: login-1.eunet.no: mbendiks owned process doing -bs Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 08:43:57 +0100 (CET) From: Marius Bendiksen To: John Baldwin Cc: Jake Burkholder , Daniel Eischen , arch@FreeBSD.org, Jonathan Lemon Subject: Re: Thread-specific data and KSEs In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-arch@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Just a short question. As I recall, the Wine people had a lot of difficulty with FreeBSD due to our abuse of the %fs register. Wouldn't using %gs as well just aggravate this problem? Besides, as I recall, the process could likely be obtained from the tss number, which can be retrieved with str. And additional data could actually be stuck in the tss. Marius To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-arch" in the body of the message