MSR storing - to Joel and E.Valette

[VALETTE Eric]

leonp wrote:


> In general -  IMHO, the MSR is the MACHINE state register. I looked through 
> all it bits once more and didn't find one that seems to be thread relative.

Do you think floatting point attribute is no a thread attribute or that 
single stepping is not also a thread attribute?

I know applications that want to run with irq disabled but suspend 
themselves waiting for hardware events... You would not be able to to this.

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