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Re: Can I use LDT on i586?
- To: "H . J . Lu" <hjl at lucon dot org>
- Subject: Re: Can I use LDT on i586?
- From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper at redhat dot com>
- Date: 19 May 2001 10:09:56 -0700
- Cc: GNU C Library <libc-alpha at sourceware dot cygnus dot com>
- References: <20010519094610.A27741@lucon.org>
- Reply-To: drepper at cygnus dot com (Ulrich Drepper)
"H . J . Lu" <hjl@lucon.org> writes:
> Glibc only uses LDT on i686. I looked at the 2.4 kernel. LDT seems to
> be compiled in even for i586. Can I use LDT on i586 for linuxthreads?
In theory yes. But I never tried it and I'm not convince the speed is OK.
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