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Date: Sun, 17 Nov 2002 20:31:04 -0800
From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
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To: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>
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Subject: Re: [patch] threading fix, tid-2.5.47-A3
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Linus Torvalds wrote:

>  - please don't introduce a new pointer, just use the old one. There 
>    appears to be no cases where you want to have different pointers
>    anyway.

Although I could imagine a possible situation where this might be useful
 I haven't had the need.  And not adding a new pointer means that
clone() on x86 has a parameter register left which might be important in
future.

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