On Mon, Jan 21, 2002 at 02:09:32PM -0500, Daniel Jacobowitz wrote: > > When is the thread pointer accessed? My understanding was that it > would be needed for the lifetime of the application, in functions > called from the application. In that case its value can not be > trusted. You are right. If we use $23 as the thread pointer, we have to change the ABI. Any assembler codes have to be checked. H.J.