[fpc-devel] OO rewrite - technical questions

[Nikolai Zhubr]

24.07.2010 19:46, Hans-Peter Diettrich:
>> MOV EAX,TlsIndex
>> MOV EDX,FS:tlsArray
>> MOV EAX,[EDX+EAX*4]
>
> I wonder what TlsIndex here is?

tlsArray = $2C;
IIRC for an application (not a dll) TlsIndex is always 0
(But I might be wrong here though)

> Also FS:tlsArray seems to contain an address in the general address
> space, so that only the tlsArray seems to vary across threads? I had
> thought that TlsIndex also should vary accross threads.

I think only FS selector (and/or descriptor) varies across threads.

> DoDi
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