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Date:      Sun, 21 Dec 2003 22:35:02 -0000
From:      Daniel Eischen <eischen@vigrid.com>
To:        Eric Anholt <eta@lclark.edu>
Cc:        Alfred Perlstein <bright@mu.org>
Subject:   Re: support for __thread
Message-ID:  <Pine.GSO.4.10.10312211732260.24264-100000@pcnet5.pcnet.com>
In-Reply-To: <1072045740.689.6.camel@leguin>

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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:

> 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.

Yes, it was folks from Nvidia that urged us to support this.

This probably better belongs on -current; some developers
don't read -hackers.

-- 
Dan Eischen



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