Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 12 Sep 2006 00:48:45 -0700 | From | Jeremy Fitzhardinge <> | Subject | Re: i386 PDA patches use of %gs |
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Arjan van de Ven wrote: > Jeremy, is there a reason you're specifically using %gs and not %fs? If > not, would you mind a switch to using %fs instead? >
The main reason for using %gs was to take advantage of gcc's TLS support. I intend to measure the cost of gs vs fs, and if there's a significant difference I'll switch.
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