support for __thread

[Daniel Eischen]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Eric Anholt wrote:

> On Sun, 2003-12-21 at 12:08, Daniel Eischen wrote:
> > On Sun, 21 Dec 2003, Alfred Perlstein wrote:
> > 
> > > * Alfred Perlstein <bright at mu.org> [031221 02:47] wrote:
> > > > How do I get __thread to work for me?
> > > > 
> > > > http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/Thread-Local.html
> > > > 
> > > > it seems the assembler chokes on it?
> > 
> > We don't have support for it yet.  Why do you want it?
> 
> From what I understand, having thread-local variables would be a big
> bonus for OpenGL.

Yes, it was folks from Nvidia that urged us to support this.

This probably better belongs on -current; some developers
don't read -hackers.

-- 
Dan Eischen