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Re: glibc 2.1.96
- To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa at transmeta dot com>
- Subject: Re: glibc 2.1.96
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 29 Oct 2000 23:49:31 -0800
- Cc: libc-alpha at sources dot redhat dot com
- References: <39FD2595.8AF1EB8C@transmeta.com>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@transmeta.com> writes:
> Comment: If you can, you should really update ino_t to 64 bits; the 2.5
> kernel will probably need a 64-bit ino_t due to NFS v3/v4, XFS, and other
> filesystems with large inode numbers.
I already answered this. ino64_t is a 64 bit type. Ino_t will never
change. People will have to get used to compile with LFS.
> Question: Are you using the thread pointer yet on i386?
Yes.
> If not, you may want to consider using %fs instead of %gs; the
> x86-64 architecture will have a slight assymetry between %fs and
> %gs, and %gs will probably be unavailable to user space.
I cannot imagine this since M$ is also using %gs. Even if this is
true, it is a completely different architecture.
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