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List:       mingw-users
Subject:    Re: [Mingw-users] Thread local storage?
From:       Danny Smith <dannysmith () clear ! net ! nz>
Date:       2007-06-23 4:26:09
Message-ID: 000301c7b54e$a0f66f90$c06d65da () anykey
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 Trent Gamblin
 Sent: Saturday, 23 June 2007 4:02 p.m.
> Danny Smith wrote:
> > __thread works on mingw on gcc 4.3.0  via an emulation that 
> uses gcc's
> > gthread api.
> > 'Real' linker support for __thread sections is still missing.
> > 
> > Danny
> 
> Thanks for your response. I didn't know that gcc 4.3.0 was 
> available for 
>    MinGW. 

It is not. You can build it if you are prepared to persevere.
Further.

The latest I found was 3.4.5. I'll take another look. I did 
> find that I was able to do what I needed with Tls* from the 
> Windows API. 

Actually, that is probably the safest thing to do.  That is what I do,
so the last statement is biased. 

> Is adding linker support for __thread a difficult thing to do?
> 

I don't know.

Danny


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