This week's experiment build gdc with tls disabled.

[Iain Buclaw]

On 19 December 2013 11:47, Johannes Pfau <nospam at example.com> wrote:
> Am Tue, 17 Dec 2013 18:48:38 +0100
> schrieb "Iain Buclaw" <ibuclaw at ubuntu.com>:
>
>> Gthreads and Emulated TLS are now in GDC!!!
>>
>> https://github.com/D-Programming-GDC/GDC/commit/62554bfe1b35ee4f586634a76c65d83ebfa871ef
>>
>> The bug noted above still exists, however what I am going to do
>> is update and hook emulated TLS into the GC.
>
> A question about the emutls support:
> I guess it's not compatible with C/C++ emutls right now? So if we have:
> test.c:
> __thread int a;
>
> and test.d:
> extern(C) int a;
>
> This wouldn't work right now?
>
> I think it could be possible to treat thread local variables in
> extern(C) code specially and hook it up with the standard GCC emutls.
> This way we could make it work, however we likely can't make the GC
> scan extern(C) thread local variables then.

It's compatible with libgcc emutls.