[fpc-devel] threadvar implementation
Michael Schnell
mschnell at lumino.de
Thu Aug 5 12:22:14 CEST 2010
On 08/05/2010 11:19 AM, Hans-Peter Diettrich wrote:
>
> Please accept that no more than 3 different segments are in use nowadays.
This is not true.
1) FS: as discussed in this thread, Windows uses FS to address the
thread management block
2) ES: in my tests I modified ES in ASM code in a Delphi program and
caused it to crash by this, So the Delphi compiler seems to use it (for
whatever purpose)
3a) GS: is used to address threadvars with Linux
3b) in my tests I modified GS in ASM code ion a Delphi program and
caused it to crash the debugger when single-stepping
User software is free to use ES, FS and GS in a decent way
Anyway, we are talking about the processor hardware here to explore what
the compiler might be allowed to do and how to do it. Of course the OS
and compiler internals imposes additional restrictions.
> FS/GS for non-zerobased segments, all others are zero-based.
I have no idea what you mean by "zerobased".
Regarding the processor hardware, address calculations is done with the
same algorithm, independent of what segment register is used in the
instruction.
The only different that _as_a_default_ for certain address calculations
certain segment registers are used. For calculating the address of an
memory argument in an instruction the normal use (of DS) can be
overridden by a flag that can be set by a prefix instruction, so that
instead of DS one of CS, SS, GS or FS is to be used.
The defaults are
- CS for instruction address
- DS for memory operator address unless SP-relative
- SS for memory operator address when SP-relative
-Michael
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