Subject: Re: FS register
To: None <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
From: None <mycroft@MIT.EDU>
List: port-i386
Date: 08/12/1997 01:03:09
The `FS register' has nothing to do with floating point; it's a segment
register.

That said, no, the kernel does not use %fs.  It used to to check for
access violations in copyin() and copyout(), but this was actually slower
than what we do now.

Though any kernel usage of the segment registers is transparent to the
user process, so I'm not sure why this would be an issue.