[fpc-devel] OO rewrite - technical questions

[Michael Schnell]

  On 07/24/2010 06:52 PM, Nikolai Zhubr wrote:
>
> IMHO the question is not how to avoid using FS trick altogether (which 
> is of course possible, right), but on the contrary, how to reliably 
> employ it in order to avoid wasting some more usefull registers and 
> excessive OS calls.

It's only possible to dedicate another register to that purpose.

With X86/32 it does not seem to make much sense, as this arch has so few 
registers and dedicating one would slow down all programs - and the 
Win32 FS-"trick" documented in the unofficial aper mentioned above and 
used in Delphi (and supposedly gnuC and M$ C) is believed to work fine 
(AFAIK, in Linux GS is different with different threads and directly 
points to the TLS, but I'm not sure, yet).

With X86/64 and other archs (such as ARM) that provide many general 
purpose registers, I suppose it's a usual way to dedicate one of them as 
a Thread Local Storage area pointer.

Maybe Win64 uses some "Selector" mechanism (similar as ) so that there 
are no different Selector-Register values in different threads.

-Michael