[First, a warning: I'm neither an expert in TLS, nor in Windows nor
in GCC guts
can we have chance to solve the
problem of threadprivate by adding the TLS support to
mingw32?
The support for TLS (Thread Local Storage) would probably come from
the compiler itself. Windows has TLS (see for example http://
dotnet.di.unipi.it/Content/sscli/docs/doxygen/pal/localstorage_8c-
source.html and http://www.ddj.com/dept/cpp/184403874, or the MSDN
documentation at http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/
library/en-us/dllproc/base/tlsalloc.asp), so you'd "only" need to
teach GCC how to call that.
Now, I don't have competence, time and motivation to do that. So, if
my analysis above is correct, there are three things you can do: ask
around here if someone is interested in this and is planning to do
it; do it yourself, if you have the competence; find someone you
know, that you have leverage on, to do it :)
Now, for an idea of how much work it represents... perhaps someone
here can tell us?
FX
