From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: (from majordomo@localhost) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) id g0IMWBA12189 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:32:11 -0800 Received: from cygnus.com (runyon.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.230.5] (may be forged)) by oss.sgi.com (8.11.2/8.11.3) with SMTP id g0IMW8P12186 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 14:32:09 -0800 Received: from myware.mynet (fiendish.sfbay.redhat.com [205.180.231.146]) by runyon.cygnus.com (8.8.7-cygnus/8.8.7) with ESMTP id NAA03905; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:32:01 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0ILVxE13939; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:31:59 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: Justin Carlson Cc: linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs References: <1011389085.7765.69.camel@gs256.sp.cs.cmu.edu> Reply-To: drepper@redhat.com (Ulrich Drepper) X-fingerprint: BE 3B 21 04 BC 77 AC F0 61 92 E4 CB AC DD B9 5A X-fingerprint: e6:49:07:36:9a:0d:b7:ba:b5:e9:06:f3:e7:e7:08:4a From: Ulrich Drepper Date: 18 Jan 2002 13:31:59 -0800 In-Reply-To: <1011389085.7765.69.camel@gs256.sp.cs.cmu.edu> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) XEmacs/21.5 (asparagus) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Precedence: bulk Justin Carlson writes: > _Why_ do we need a general register which is read-only to userland? Are > you trying to store thread-context information in a fast way? Why does > this need to happen? Read-only is no requirement. It is possible to live with this arrangement is all I said. If it's a normal register, fine, this is how it works on most platforms. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------