On Tue, Oct 23, 2012 at 1:13 AM, Peter Maydell <peter.mayd...@linaro.org> wrote: > On 22 October 2012 10:30, Jan Kiszka <jan.kis...@siemens.com> wrote: >> Can't we enhance qemu-tls.h to work via pthread_setspecific in case >> __thread is not working and use that abstraction (DECLARE/DEFINE_TLS) >> directly? > > Agreed. (There were prototype patches floating around for Win32 > at least). The only reason qemu-tls.h has the dummy not-actually-tls > code for non-linux is that IIRC we wanted to get the linux bits > in quickly before a release and we never got round to going back > and doing it properly for the other targets. > Oh, it seems that my need of it can be covered by __thread. I will resort to it. BTW, what is the exception that __thread can resolve (if ELF can support this keyword)?
Thanks and regards, pingfan
