Do you know how this is implemented in the x86 architecture ? I suppose The CPU does not have enough registers to dedicate one for that purpose, unless something exotic like the Extra Segment is used.
I did a disassembly and I see that in fact it does use the gs segment register for this purpose.

-Michael
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