Proposal: Exceptions and @nogc

[Guillaume Piolat via Digitalmars-d]

On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 16:08:33 UTC, David Nadlinger wrote:
> On Wednesday, 5 April 2017 at 14:35:18 UTC, Guillaume Piolat 
> wrote:
>> But those of us with the runtime disabled don't have TLS.
>
> This is only true on DMD/OS X x86, where TLS is emulated in 
> druntime. On other platforms, TLS is implemented by the linker 
> and/or C runtime, so it works without druntime just fine.
>

TIL, thanks.

> Regular thread-local module constructors (static this) of 
> course won't work without druntime support, as they are 
> mediated through ModuleInfo.
>
>  — David

Sure.
This means TLS is here but uninitialized and eg. core.cpuid has 
to be duplicated.
Fragmentation ensues.