Re: [PATCH] struct thread_struct, asm-i386/processor.h: wrong datatype?

[Herbert Rosmanith]

> no. 'struct thread_struct' is the 'soft' thread-state structure. We 
> store data in the most convenient (and best performing) format - word 
> size in this case. The 'hard' data structure is 'struct tss_struct' - 
> where we of course define things in the way the CPU expects it.

I see. thanks for the answer.
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