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 g0ILL9209977 for linux-mips-outgoing; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:21:09 -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 g0ILL6P09974 for ; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 13:21:07 -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 MAA27511; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:20:53 -0800 (PST) Received: (from drepper@localhost) by myware.mynet (8.11.6/8.11.6) id g0IKKpP00956; Fri, 18 Jan 2002 12:20:51 -0800 X-Authentication-Warning: myware.mynet: drepper set sender to drepper@redhat.com using -f To: "Maciej W. Rozycki" Cc: "H . J . Lu" , GNU libc hacker , linux-mips@oss.sgi.com Subject: Re: thread-ready ABIs References: 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 12:20:51 -0800 In-Reply-To: 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 "Maciej W. Rozycki" writes: > But what about that Alpha's special code? It could possibly be > reused given the large Alpha's similarity to MIPS. No. Alpha has certain builtin code which looks similar to calls or software interrupts but are executed in the CPU. This allows access to some memory in the CPU which is almost as fast as a normal register access. MIPS doesn't have such hardware. If you cannot find a register you're doomed. -- ---------------. ,-. 1325 Chesapeake Terrace Ulrich Drepper \ ,-------------------' \ Sunnyvale, CA 94089 USA Red Hat `--' drepper at redhat.com `------------------------