[M3devel] any limitations on __thread?

[Olaf Wagner]

Quoting Jay <jay.krell at cornell.edu>:

>
> Anyone have expertise on __thread?
> In particular, on Windows there is a close analog __declspec(thread)  
>  that generally would seem to work and work well, except that, per   
> documentation, prior to Vista, it doesn't work if you are loaded   
> with LoadLibrary (dlopen), only if the main executable uses your   
> .so, directly or indirectly. To me that's a pretty big limitation so  
>  I wouldn't use it. I haven't seen any documentation on __thread   
> giving this caveat though so it seems ok to use.
>
> I changed m3core to use it if sample code seems to compile, link,   
> and execute correctly with it.

This is done at installation time, I assume?
Where is this test located?

>
>
>  - Jay



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