Does __gshared have shared semantics?

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On Saturday, 14 June 2014 at 01:24:05 UTC, Mike Franklin wrote:
> In other words, is 'shared __gshared' redundant?

All __gshared does is makes the variable not go into thread-local 
storage, nothing more. Shared does this, as well as modify the 
type to be shared(T) instead of just T. So yes, it's redundant.