RE: Fast thread-local storage for OpenGL drivers

[Gareth Hughes]

Alexandre Julliard wrote:
> This is not something we can guarantee. The layout of the thread
> structure in Wine is defined by Microsoft, and it's very possible that
> they will use these fields someday for something that we need to
> emulate.

What about the area currently used for GDI?  One other method could be to
have space at a negative offset from %fs reserved for OpenGL, similar to
what the IA32 implementation of NTPL does in Variant II of its design.

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Gareth Hughes ([e-mail])
OpenGL Developer, NVIDIA Corporation