On Wed, Aug 17, 2011 at 5:28 PM, Paolo Bonzini <pbonz...@redhat.com> wrote:
> On 08/17/2011 10:26 AM, Stefan Hajnoczi wrote:
>>>>
>>>> >>  Do you know which Windows gcc versions support __thread and if it
>>>> >>  would be reasonable to require those versions?
>>>
>>> >
>>> >  It's probably 4.3 and newer, or something like that.
>>
>> I suggest we simply require that minimum gcc version.
>
> I would agree (just did it for fun and to see how it looks like), but
> perhaps we can do something similar to what Windows does for OpenBSD too.
>
> Though I'm quite disappointed and I must say OpenBSD should enter the 21st
> century.

I can't justify their design decisions, but isn't __thread a
non-standard extension by GCC anyway whereas POSIX threads are the
standard? Are other compilers supporting it?

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