> also, wondering wether LinuxThreads could just use the same trick the
> kernel uses to access the 'current' thread, by doing %%esp & ~-8192 to
> access to 'start' of the kernel stack, there one could store the thread
> structure? [hm, not sure wether this works for LinuxThreads, in the kernel
> we can guarantee that the kernel stack is 8K aligned]
Something like this is done currently on some of the platforms but
this has to be changed in the presence of user-defined stacks.
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