Re: What is __thread tls?
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:And where is the best place to find definitions of terms I don't know on
:these lists?
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:Jonathon McKitrick
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:My other computer is your Windows box.
My head?
TLS stands for 'thread local storage'. It is a way of abstracting
global variable declarations that you want to be 'per thread' storage
rather then common storage.
so, e.g. in a threaded environment, if you declare a global variable:
int Fubar;
Then that global variable will represent the same storage across all threads.
But if you declare it:
__thread int Fubar;
Then each thread will be given *different* storage for Fubar.
This feature could be used by, well, just about every library. For example,
it would allow us to clean up how 'errno' works in a threaded environment.
It would allow standard libc calls such as ctime() and localtime() work
properly in a threaded environment, and it would greatly simplify the job
of writing threaded library code.
-Matt
Matthew Dillon
<dillon@backplane.com>
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