Sorry, I didn't mean for this response to go to the entire group...
- Matt
Matt Fahrner wrote:
>
> Sorry I never responded (been buried). Unfortunately past the fact that
> you can do "thread_specific()" I don't know much about what's available
> for localized thread data.
>
> - Matt
>
> Terry Gin wrote:
> >
> > Thanks, Matt.
> >
> > Actually, I did mean thread-local storage, which is a language extension
> > supported by some compilers. These compilers probably use
> > thread-specific data to implement thread-local storage.
> >
> > I can use thread-specific data to accomplish what I want, but it's a
> > little more "bulky." With thread-local storage, I simply declare a
> > global variable with a special attribute (e.g., __thread or
> > __declspec(thread)). Every thread gets its own copy. To access a copy,
> > the thread simply refers the it like any other global variable.
> >
> > With thread-specific data, I have to call pthread_key_create() to create
> > the variable and pthread_set/getspecific() to access it.
> >
> > I was hoping g++ supported this extension as well.
> >
> > If I do use pthread_key_create(), does my main() thread also get its own
> > copy of the data, or only threads created by pthread_create()?
> >
> > Thanks.
> >
> > Terry
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Matt Fahrner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Thursday, April 26, 2001 3:19 PM
> > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Subject: Re: Thread-local storage
> >
> > If you mean "thread specific" data then POSIX threads (pthreads) has
> > "pthread_key_create()" and "pthread_setspecific()" to do so....
> >
> > See the man for it.
> >
> > - Matt
> >
> > Terry Gin wrote:
> > >
> > > I'm porting an app that currently runs on both Win32 and HP-UX to
> > Linux.
> > > MSVC++ supports thread-local storage via the __declspec(thread)
> > > attribute, and HP-UX's aCC supports it via the __thread attribute.
> > Does
> > > Linux (g++) have similar mechanism that supports thread-local storage?
> > >
> > > Thanks in advance.
> > >
> > > Terry
> > >
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