On Tue, Nov 24, 2015 at 03:16:59PM +0000, Jonathan Larmour wrote: > On 23/11/15 20:34, Matt Caswell wrote: > > One other option we could pursue is to use the "__thread" syntax for > > thread local variables and avoid the need for libpthread altogether. An > > earlier version of the code did this. I have not found a way to reliably > > detect at compile time the capability to do this and my understanding is > > that this is a lot less portable. > > Behind the scenes, if pthreads are available on an OS, then the compiler > will probably just end up using pthread functions anyway, meaning there's > no advantage over having just linked against libpthread.
__thread can be used in something that doesn't use threads. It gets put in a different section in the elf file (.tbss, .tdata). But that still requires that things like the dynamic loader support it. Kurt _______________________________________________ openssl-dev mailing list To unsubscribe: https://mta.openssl.org/mailman/listinfo/openssl-dev
