On Wed, Nov 07, 2007 at 09:25:51PM +0100, Staf Verhaegen wrote: > On Wed, 07 Nov 2007 08:37:34 +0100, Marcus Meissner > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Tue, Nov 06, 2007 at 10:17:12PM +0100, Staf Verhaegen wrote: > >> Hello wine developers, > >> > > > Win32 (and so Wine) uses %fs as the thread selector. > > > > It needs to stay constant over process switches (as in "saved") and the > > base > > virtual address must be settable. > > > > But the use of %fs by wine does not seem to conflict in any way with a > possible usage of that segment register by the OS where wine is running > on. Or is there some OS specific code that is handling it ?
No, it does not conflict. Your syscall / scheduler entry/exit points however need to take care to save/restore it correctly, otherwise you get interesting crashes ;) Ciao, Marcus
