On the 0x1C8 day of Apache Harmony Weldon Washburn wrote:
> Windows uses ia32 segment register fs:14 for fast thread-local storage
> access.  I think Linux somehow uses the gs segment register.  

In general, it is implementation-specific (not older kernels).

Here is a good link for that:
http://bugs.sun.com/bugdatabase/view_bug.do?bug_id=4915203

I wonder, how to handle system-dependent code with Java vmmagic :(
A simple if-then-else would make an #ifdef replacement?

-- 
Egor Pasko, Intel Managed Runtime Division


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