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At several places I have read,
Each thread has its own set of CPU registers and its own stack
Here, I can understand about stack, it’s a data structure. But how thread can have its own CPU registers. They are fix in number and there are limitless number of threads are running in the system.
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Yes, there are a fixed number of registers.
When the OS switches from 1 thread to another, it copies the state of the finishing thread, including the current values of all the registers into its descriptor, then copies the values from the the descriptor of another thread into the registers.
These descriptors are stored in RAM, although this is in part what Hyper Threading set out to fix, allowing 2 threads to be stored in a single CPU core at a time, but that is an entirely different discussion.