On dim, oct 14, 2007 at 07:17:51 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > On dim, oct 14, 2007 at 07:12:39 +0000, Pierre Habouzit wrote: > > The trivial way is to add a __thread keyword to make them TLS > > variables, though, it's not really a step in the direction of > > portability, and last time I looked at it, mingw didn't had TLS support, > > not sure if msys has. Though, if Msys has, it's worth using, and we > > Okay forget it, mingw and msys are one and the same *g*. > So well, maybe threading isn't such a so great idea :/ And again last time I checked it was still a mingw 3.x in debian, now that it's 4.2.1 it seems to support __thread (but not __declspec(thread)) and their changelog seems to confirm that fact [0]. So the question holds again, do we require pthread-using targets to support TLS ? It feels sane and right to me, but … [0] http://sourceforge.net/project/shownotes.php?release_id=532062 [...] * The __thread keyword is honoured. [...] -- ·O· Pierre Habouzit ··O madcoder@xxxxxxxxxx OOO http://www.madism.org
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