[LLVMdev] [PATCH] Add support for accessing the FS segment register on X86

Shantonu Sen ssen at apple.com
Mon May 4 14:36:54 PDT 2009


Maybe 257 would be better (or other unused), because of r70197, which  
gives special behavior for <256

Shantonu Sen
ssen at apple.com

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On May 4, 2009, at 2:28 PM, Zoltan Varga wrote:

> Hi,
>
>   The attached patch adds support for accessing the FS segment  
> register using address space 255, similarly to the way the GS  
> segment register can be accessed. This is useful for generating TLS  
> access code on amd64 for example.
>
>               Zoltan
>
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