%fs, %gs on AROS hosted
Staf Verhaegen
staf.verhaegen at skynet.be
Wed Nov 7 14:25:51 CST 2007
On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:37:34 +0100, Marcus Meissner
<marcus at jet.franken.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Staf Verhaegen wrote:
>> Hello wine developers,
>>
> Win32 (and so Wine) uses %fs as the thread selector.
>
> It needs to stay constant over process switches (as in "saved") and the
> base
> virtual address must be settable.
>
But the use of %fs by wine does not seem to conflict in any way with a
possible usage of that segment register by the OS where wine is running
on. Or is there some OS specific code that is handling it ?
greets,
Staf.
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