Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Using %cr2 to reference "current" | Date | Tue, 6 Nov 2001 17:46:05 +0000 (GMT) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> We pretty much know the _theory_ is not correct, just by virtue of > depending on non-architected behaviour. The only thing -ac can do is > test whether it works in practice. Which is a totally different thing.
Yep
> Especially on x86 chips.
Well so far I've found one laptop that eats %cr2 on APM calls, and we have some mystery cases. Peter's suggestion of using %fs or %gs looks more promising at the moment
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