Subject: thread-local storage (was: BAD NEWS - Apache ...)
From: [email-masked] (Fergus Henderson)

16 May 1997 19:24:30 -0700
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Original-To: [email-masked] (Colin Peters)
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In-Reply-To: <01BC6208.5EF05380@gbird0> from "Colin Peters" at May 16, 97 02:49:33 pm
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Colin Peters, you wrote:
> 
> If GCC supported the __declspec(thread) syntax (or some equivalent)
> then you could simply mark all your thread local "static" or "global"
> variables with that and everything would be simpler, but I don't
> think that is likely to work now or anytime soon.

What would be necessary to get this to work?
Is

	#define THREADLOCAL __attribute__((section(".tls")))
	int foo THREADLOCAL = 42;

enough, or does the compiler need to generate special code for accessing
thread-local storage?

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