>    Date: Sat, 28 Feb 2004 15:39:47 -0500
>    From: Andrew Cagney <cagney@gnu.org>
> 
>    > Could you live with just zero-extending the 16 general-purpose
>    > registers and the instruction pointer?  I'll implement it for you.
> 
>    It is certainly an improvement!  Can you test it?
> 
> I've tested the attached on SuSE 8.2, with -m32.  No changes in the
> testoutput for me, but the threaded stuff doesn't work very well on
> the system (and probably no at all in on 32x64-bit).  I committed it
> anyway, since I can't imagine this making things worse for the
> threaded stuff if it works for the non-threaded stuff.  I'd appreciate
> it if you could test whether this fixed the problems you were seeing.

The segment registers have the same problem, is the attached ok? 6.1? 
With it applied I get test results that approach i386.

Andrew