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diff --git a/doc/cpu_supplement/sparc.t b/doc/cpu_supplement/sparc.t
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+++ b/doc/cpu_supplement/sparc.t
@@ -401,6 +401,9 @@ The registers g2 through g4 are reserved for applications. GCC uses them as
volatile registers by default. So they are treated like volatile registers in
RTEMS as well.
+The register g7 is reserved for the operating system and contains the thread
+pointer used for thread-local storage (TLS) as mandated by the SPARC ABI.
+
@subsubsection Floating Point Registers
The SPARC V7 architecture includes thirty-two,