David Abrahams wrote:
> "Peter Dimov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
>> Looks like a no-brainer, &k can't be a compile-time constant if k is
>> thread-local.
>>
>> 1.
>>
>> void f()
>> {
>> C<&k> ck;
>> }
[...]
>> The type of ck cannot depend on the thread that is executing f.
>
> It doesn't have to. When used as a template parameter, an address
> could refer to something more like a member function pointer, i.e. an
> offset in the thread's table of globals.
C has been declared as
template<int * p> class C;
An int* is an int*. I don't think that any implementation has
mini-union-pointers to accomodate thread local addresses. The performance
impact would kill pointers.
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