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On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:08, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> 
> > * Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org> [031221 02:47] wrote:
> > > How do I get __thread to work for me?
> > > 
> > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html
> > > 
> > > it seems the assembler chokes on it?
> 
> We don't have support for it yet.  Why do you want it?

>From what I understand, having thread-local variables would be a big
bonus for OpenGL.

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