Justin Carlson <justincarlson@cmu.edu> 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 `------------------------
