Ideas for runtime loading of shared libraries.

[Sean Kelly]

__thread is supported under Lion via Clang. 

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On Jan 3, 2012, at 9:44 AM, Jacob Carlborg <doob at me.com> wrote:

> On 2012-01-03 17:53, Martin Nowak wrote:
>> Yes most, but not all.
>> The core issue here is that C++'s __thread doesn't allow dynamic
>> initializers,
>> thus there is no infrastructure to do such things. And really a clean
>> approach
>> would be to extend libc/ld.so.
> 
> First, __thread isn't supported in Mac OS X (if we're talking about that). For all the operating systems that do support TLS I'm pretty sure that TLS and dynamic libraries work.
> 
> This documentation:
> 
> http://www.akkadia.org/drepper/tls.pdf
> 
> mentions several different TLS modes, some used for dynamic libraries and some used for other cases.
> 
> -- 
> /Jacob Carlborg