%fs, %gs on AROS hosted
Staf Verhaegen
staf.verhaegen at skynet.be
Sat Nov 10 05:52:24 CST 2007
On Thu, 08 Nov 2007 09:08:29 +0100, Marcus Meissner
<marcus at jet.franken.de> wrote:
>> 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 ?
>
> No, it does not conflict. Your syscall / scheduler entry/exit points
> however need to take care to save/restore it correctly, otherwise
> you get interesting crashes ;)
Already big thanks.
Do you know where this code for these entry/exit points handling is
located for the different OSes in the wine source code?
Does Windows/wine also have such entry/exit points so I could freely use
%fs,%gs in AROS hosted on Windows?
greets,
Staf.
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